Johanna Adorján’s AN EXCLUSIVE LOVE is a memoir elegantly chronicling her grandparents’ relationship, from surviving the horrors of the Holocaust through their double suicide in 1991. It is the February Book of the Month pick from the German Book Office. Want to win a free copy? Send your name and mailing address to gregg (at) newyork.gbo.org. (Contest open to residents …
Win THE BOX by Günter Grass
The German Book Office’s December Book of the Month is THE BOX by Günter Grass. Want to win a FREE copy? Send your name and mailing address to gregg (at) newyork (dot) gbo (dot) org. Every tenth entry will win a free copy, until our supply runs out. (Contest only open to residents of the continental United States.) Keep up-to-date …
WIN “Fame” by Daniel Kehlmann
The German Book Office’s September Book of the Month is Fame by Daniel Kehlmann. From the press release: “Fame and facelessness, truth and deception, spin their way through all nine episodes of this captivating, wickedly funny, and perpetually surprising novel as paths cross and plots thicken, as characters become real people and real people morph into characters. The result is …
WIN the German Book Office’s July Book of the Month: Rage and Time
by Helen Gregg The German Book Office announced its July Book of the Month today: Peter Sloterdijk’s Rage and Time, published in April 2010 by Columbia University Press. Using The Iliad, The Count of Monte Cristo, and the recent Islamic riots in Paris as examples, the book chronicles the role rage plays in political and social struggles. From the press …