Peter Schneider, Author, Philip Boehm, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-13053-4
When three pre-reunification Berliner friends make a bet to stay in their respective pairs for at least a year, the odds are equally against them all in this wry, worldly first novel by Schneider, whose The German Comedy (1991) chronicled life in...
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Peter Schneider, Author, Leigh Hafrey, Translator, Philip Boehm, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $21 (211p) ISBN 978-0-374-10201-2
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 brought its share of comic absurdities. For example, the Germans' newfound freedom, as Schneider shows, has complicated the romances of lovers who once navigated the Wall's restrictions. For the most part, though,
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Peter Schneider, Author, John Brownjohn, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-14654-2
When Eduard Hoffmann, a German geneticist at Stanford University, unexpectedly inherits property in East Berlin after the Wall comes down, his life takes an unsettling turn. The bequest precipitates a crisis between him and his American wife, who is
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Peter Schneider, trans. from the German by Sophie Schlondorff. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-25484-1
In this enlightening collection of essays, Berlin resident Schneider unearths the city’s charms and hazards. Journalist Schneider (Eduard’s Homecoming; The Wall Jumper) first came to Berlin from Freiburg as a student in 1962 and has since seen...
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