Books set in Germany (254)


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The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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This is an intellectual drama of the forces which play upon modern man. Its theatre is a sanatorium in the Swiss mountains - a community organized with exclusive reference to ill-health.

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The Magician by Colm Tóibín EN

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Country: Europe / Ireland flag Ireland
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A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek ​From one of today’s most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War that is “a feat of literary sorcery in its own right” (Oprah Daily). The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conserva... continue

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The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic EN

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Country: Europe / Croatia flag Croatia
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Critically acclaimed experimental, literary fiction by the famous Croatian exile author.

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The Night Travelers : A Novel by Armando Lucas Correa EN

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Country: North America / Cuba flag Cuba
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Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping novel from the bestselling author of the “timely must-read” (People) The German Girl. Berlin, 1931: Ally Keller, a talented young poet, is alone and scared when she gives birth to a mixed-race daughter she names Lilith. As the Nazis rise to power, Ally knows she must keep her baby in the shadows to protect her against Hitler’s deadly ideology of Aryan purity. But as she grows, it becomes more and more difficult to keep Lilith h... continue

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The Nine : The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss EN

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"[A] narrative of unfathomable courage" —Wall Street Journal The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They were arrest... continue

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The Passenger : A Novel by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz EN

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Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany Berlin, November 1938. Jewish shops have been ransacked and looted, synagogues destroyed. As storm troopers pound on his door, Otto Silbermann, a respected businessman who fought for Germany in the Great War, is forced to sneak out the back of his own home. Turned away from establishments he had long patronized, and fearful of being exposed as a Jew despite his Aryan looks, he boards a train. And then another. And another . . . until his flig... continue

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The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth Von Arnim EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Oceania / Australia flag Australia
Description:
A young lady runs away to England from the 'blatant vulgarity' of her South European palace

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The Reader by Bernhard Schlink EN

Rating: 4 (17 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
Description:
Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany. When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his lover--then she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guardi... continue

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The Rings of Saturn by Winfried Georg Sebald EN

Rating: 3.5 (4 votes)
Country: Europe / Germany flag Germany
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A fictional account of a walking tour of the English countryside, moving through space and time in a dream-like mode.

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The Shortest History of Germany by James Hawes EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / England flag England
Description:
This fresh, concise and entertaining new history, with more than 100 maps and images, makes sense of Europe's most admired and feared country.