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Florian Herscht, a gentle giant in a small town in Thuringia, writes letter after letter to Angela Merkel warning her of the end of the universe, while the neo-Nazis around him have other plans.
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Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Baron Béla Wenckheim, a gambler who has spent years in exile in Argentina, comes back to his Hungarian home town to find his first love, and the town prepares to welcome a saviour.
Doctor Faustus
A German biographer writes during the Reich's collapse about his friend, a composer who contracted for twenty-four years of genius in a Leipzig brothel.
War and War
György Korin, an archivist in a provincial Hungarian town, finds an ancient manuscript and travels to New York to put it on the internet before he takes his own life.
Dog Years
The friendship of Walter Matern and Eddi Amsel, two boys from a village near Danzig, from the 1920s through the Nazi years and after, told by three narrators and shadowed by a line of black dogs.
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
On the day of his eightieth birthday in 1958, the architect Heinrich Faehmel and his son and grandson, three generations of a Cologne family, look back on fifty years of Germany.
The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum
Katharina Blum, a quiet housekeeper, spends a carnival night with a young man the police are hunting, and a tabloid newspaper turns her life into a story.
Europe Central
Linked stories of Germany and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century, of artists, officers and informers, from the composer Shostakovich to the SS officer Kurt Gerstein.
The President
In a Central American capital ruled by a nameless dictator, the murder of an army officer sets off a wave of persecution that reaches the president's own favourite.
Jean-Christophe
The life of Jean-Christophe Krafft, born into a family of musicians in a small Rhineland town, from his childhood and first loves to his struggle as a composer in Germany and Paris.
The Unconsoled
A concert pianist arrives at a European hotel for a performance and discovers that the building, the city, and his schedule are shifting according to a dream logic he can't control.
Beijing Coma
Dai Wei, a student shot in the head in Tiananmen Square in 1989, lies in a coma for ten years, aware of everything, remembering the protests while China changes around him.
Paradise
An all-Black Oklahoma town's men attack a convent of women living on the outskirts, and the novel untangles the histories that led to the violence.