Christoph Hein, Author, Philip Boehm, Translator , trans. from the German by Philip Boehm. Metropolitan $26 (323p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7768-1
Starting off as a refugee in Guldenberg, Germany, was tough enough, but for Bernhard Haber, whose family—led by his one-armed carpenter father—fled Breslau after the 1945 Soviet invasion, things never got easier. From his first days in...
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Christoph Hein, Author Pantheon Books $16.95 (178p) ISBN 978-0-394-56634-4
The paralyzing ennui of modern existence is the central force in this rather detached 1982 novel by an East German poet and playwright who is a rising star on the European literary scene. Writing in the voice of Claudia, a young female doctor, Hein...
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Christoph Hein, Author, Philip Boehm, Translator , trans. from the German by Philip Boehm. Holt/Metropolitan $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6731-6
An enterprising used-car salesman in post–Iron Curtain Berlin navigates the capitalist world of shady deals and armed robbery in this sharp, darkly humorous novel by East German novelist/playwright Hein (The Tango Player). Though German...
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Christoph Hein, Author, Philip Boehm, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (219p) ISBN 978-0-374-27252-4
One of East Germany's leading writers, Hein ( The Distant Lover ) critiques the political corruption and patronage system that marked his country's brand of communism during the 1960s. The tersely described life of Dallow, a luckless history...
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