Uwe Timm, Author, Anthea Bell, Translator , trans. from the German by Anthea Bell. Farrar, Straus & Giroux $21 (150p) ISBN 978-0-374-10374-3
A memoir not of a brother but of his absence from the author's life and family, Timm's book revolves around memory—of how traces of his brother, an SS corporal killed in Russia in 1943, are tied up with aspects of WWII that still...
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Uwe Timm, Author, Peter Tegel, Translator, Peter Tegel, Foreword by New Directions Publishing Corporation $22.95 (402p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1254-0
Large-scale embezzlement finds a memorable champion in the protagonist and narrator of this complex, intriguing novel originally published in Germany in 1991. After fleeing Hamburg and a prison sentence for bilking investors out of millions, middle-a
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Uwe Timm, Author, Leila Vennewitz, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $11.95 (218p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1368-4
The ubiquitous German curbside fare is found to have origins in a furtive romance. (Oct.)
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Uwe Timm, Author, Leila Vennewitz, Translator, Leila Bennewitz, Translator New Directions Publishing Corporation $19.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1297-7
German novelist Timm (Headhunter), who inserts himself as narrator and witness into the plot of this ambitious but flawed work, tracks down Lena Brucker, a blind old woman, in 1989 to verify the rumor that she ``invented'' curried sausage, a popular
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Uwe Timm, Actor, Breon Mitchell, Translator, Uwe Timm, Author , trans. from the German by Breon Mitchell. New Directions $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1514-5
This historical novel by Timm (Headhunter), first published in Germany in 1978, is an oddly fragmented montage that offers a compelling view of the title figure, a charismatic black South-West African who led the Hottentot and Herero uprising...
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