Irene Dische, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $24 (307p) ISBN 978-0-374-29912-5
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rau Professor Doktor Rother, the narrator of this brutally funny debut, is self-centered, cynical, sarcastic, fiercely proud of her Aryan heritage and incorrigibly anti-Semitic. As a German army nurse in WWI, Elizabeth Gierlich meets wealthy...
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Irene Dische, Author Viking Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-670-83492-1
In this wry, eccentric and pretentious first novel, originally published in German though written by a native New Yorker, German-born pathologist Connie Bauer brings home a beau, fellow pathologist Ronald Hake. He meets her children and her parents,
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Irene Dische, Author Metropolitan Books $22.5 (243p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4172-9
All the characters in these 11 stories from an American writer living in Berlin find it impossible to make a clean break with the past. Those with romantic notions about freedom are invariably disappointed, although the reader is not, since Dische...
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Irene Dische, Author Metropolitan Books $23 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5357-9
When is it too late to love? That's the question posed by this unflaggingly arch, if unimaginatively plotted second novel by Dische (Pious Secrets and the short-story collection Strange Traffic). It chronicles the slow ensoulment of one Benedikt...
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Irene Dische, Author, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Joint Author, Michael Sowa, Illustrator Image Connection $19.95 (36p) ISBN 978-0-9702768-3-4
Image Connection reissues Creative Edition's translation of the 1993 German fantasy Esterhazy: The Rabbit Prince by Irene Dische and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, illus. by Michael Sowa. The story concerns a royal dynasty of very small rabbits and...
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