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3) My century
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
One hundred stories, each named after a year of the 20th century. In one, Erich Maria Remarque gives his views on World War I, in another former Nazis reflect on the good old days, while a third is on the fall of the Berlin Wall from a dead woman's point of view.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Hebel developed a pithy, spontaneous style for these stories which he originally wrote for inclusion in a popular almanac. Dipping into The Treasure Chest readers will find jokes, comic anecdotes, sensational murder stories, reports of disasters and mysteries, moral tales and others celebrating the triumph of ingenuity and cunning. While Hebel had to cater for a vast diversity of tastes, the hallmarks of his anecdotes and curiosities are their support...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
"Where Europe Begins presents a collection of startling, innovative stories by Yoko Tawada. In these ten tales - two originally written in Japanese, eight in German - the reader moves through landscapes of fairy tales, family history, childhood memories, strange words and letters, dreams, and everyday reality."
"In these stories' disparate settings - Japan, Siberia, Russia, and Germany - boundaries blur and shift between the physical and metaphysical,...