| Description |
xvii, 181 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Stories from a first reader ; The three dark kings / Wolfgang Borchert -- My sad face / Heinrich Böll -- A very Baltic story / Ulrich Becher -- La Paloma, or the food of love / Hans Bender -- Who am I? / Kurt Kusenberg -- The fat child / Marie Luise Kaschnitz -- Traffic accident / Heinz Risse -- The left-handers / Günter Grass -- The swan / Gabriele Wohmann -- A handful of white daffodils / Luise Rinser -- Diary of a dayfly / Wolfdietrich Schnurre -- Bleep, crash, zap, wow : accidents in the Ruhr / Wolfgang Körner -- The amusement-doctor / Siegfried Lenz -- The reed / Anna Seghers -- Invention of a language / Wolfgang Kohlhaase -- A certain date / Christa Wolf -- Someday he really will come home / Günter de Bruyn -- A letter to Comrade Ernst L. / Uwe Kant -- Border crossers / Rolf Schneider -- My Richard / Stefan Heym -- How the jungle soldiers became sons of heaven / Eduard Claudius -- A judgment worthy of Solomon / Karl Mundstock -- Hic sunt leones / Joachim Nowotny -- The decision / Günter Görlich -- Eighteen minutes / Axel Schulze -- The tub / Martin Stephan -- How Krabat lost Smjala / Jurij Brězan. |
| Subject |
Short stories, German -- Germany -- Translations into English.
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German fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English.
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Germany -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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| Indexed Term |
Short stories in German, 1945- - Anthologies - English texts |
| Added Author |
Norton, Roger C. (Roger Cecil), 1921-
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| ISBN |
0804426600 |
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9780804426602 |
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0804466084 (paperback) |
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9780804466080 (paperback) |
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