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Minerva

Parents Worry (1989) [Buy Direct]

by Gerard Reve
Translated by Richard Huijing
Original title: Bezorgde ouders

Acknowledged as one of the great stylists of modern Dutch literature, Gerard Reve has, since the 1960s, become increasingly mannered and increasingly explicit about his blend of religiosity (he is a Catholic convert) and sado-masochistic homosexuality. (more...)

The Laws (1991) [Buy Direct]

by Connie Palmen
Translated by Richard Huijing
Original title: De wetten

The Laws has all the makings of a cult book. It was Connie Palmen’s first novel, brought her huge commercial success, was selected as European Novel of the Year in 1991 — and remains a demanding, baffling, open-ended philosophical reflection on the writing and reading of novels. (more...)

The Night of the Amazons [Buy Direct]

by Herbert Rosendorfer
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Original title: Die Nacht der Amazonen

The Night of the Amazons is the blackest of black satires on Nazi Germany. It charts the rise of Christian Weber, one-time groom and pub bouncer, who exploits his status as one of the ‘Grand Old Soldiers’ of the ‘Movement’ (i.e. the Nazi Party), (more...)

The Man without Qualities Vol. 3

by Robert Musil
Translated by E Kaiser
Original title: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

The Man without Qualities Vol. 2 [Buy Direct]

by Robert Musil
Translated by E Kaiser
Original title: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

The Man without Qualities Vol. 1 [Buy Direct]

by Robert Musil
Translated by E Kaiser
Original title: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften

Mario and the Magician, and Other Stories

by Thomas Mann
Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter
Original title: Mario und der Zauberer

The Magic Mountain

by Thomas Mann
Translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter
Original title: Der Zauberberg

The Magic Mountain [Buy Direct]

by Thomas Mann
Translated by H T Lowe-Porter
Original title: Zauberberg, Der

Doctor Faustus [Buy Direct]

by Thomas Mann
Translated by H T Lowe-Porter
Original title: Doktor Faustus

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