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Königskinder

Königskinder
  • Author(s): Gernot Gricksch
  • Location(s): Hamburg, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1970s -2000s

Zuerst die gute Nachricht: Ja, es gibt sie wirklich, die eine große wahre Liebe und den einen Menschen, den das Schicksal für uns vorherbestimmt hat. Dummerweise ist das Schicksal manchmal aber etwas schlampig bei der Durchführung seiner Pläne. So...

Love in Five Acts

Love in Five Acts
  • Author(s): Daniela Krien, Jamie Bulloch (Translator)
  • Location(s): Leipzig
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 21st Century

Five women attempt the impossible – to love, to be strong, and to stay true to themselves. Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses...

News from Berlin

News from Berlin
  • Author(s): Otto de Kat
  • Location(s): Berlin, Switzerland
  • Genre(s): Novella
  • Era(s): 1941

June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurse in London and their daughter Emma is living in Berlin with her husband Carl,...

Seven Years

Seven Years
  • Author(s): Peter Stamm
  • Location(s): Munich
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Recent modern

Alex has spent the majority of his adult life torn between two very different women-and he can’t make up his mind. Sonia, his wife and business partner, is everything a man would want. Intelligent, beautiful, charming, and ambitious, she...

Sorry

Sorry
  • Author(s): Zoran Drvenkar
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Berlin. Four friends. One extreme idea. One of the most gripping thrillers ever written. Kris, Tamara,Wolf and Frauke set up an agency called Sorry. An agency to right wrongs. Unfair dismissals, the wrongly accused: everyone has a price, and...

Splinter

Splinter
  • Author(s): Sebastian Fitzek
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Set in Neukölln, Berlin, Marc Lucas had it all, and lost it all. He is only slowly putting his life back together after the car crash that killed his pregnant wife, when things start to go strangely wrong for...

Stasi Child

Stasi Child
  • Author(s): David Young
  • Location(s): Berlin
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1975

East Berlin, 1975 When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate a teenage girl’s body at the foot of the Wall, she imagines she’s seen it all before. But when she arrives she realises this is a death like...

Summer in Baden-Baden

Summer in Baden-Baden
  • Author(s): Leonid Tsypkin
  • Location(s): Baden-Baden
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

One bitterly cold winter in the 1970s, Leonid Tsypkin’s obsession with Dostoyevsky leads him to Leningrad by train, so that he can see for himself where his hero died. As the train makes its way across Russia, a journal...

The Bridge of the Golden Horn

The Bridge of the Golden Horn
  • Author(s): Emine Sevgi Ozdamar
  • Location(s): Berlin, Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

This is the story about two cultures and the role of women, the conflict and hardships.

The German House

The German House
  • Author(s): Annette Hess
  • Location(s): Frankfurt
  • Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Set against the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963, Annette Hess’s international bestseller is a harrowing yet ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about a young female translator—caught between societal and familial expectations and her unique ability to speak truth to power—as...

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