BOOKS by Gert Hofmann

Sometimes it pays off to expand your search to view all available copies of items matching your search terms.

Page 1 of 3

sort by

1	The Stalin Front: A Novel of World War II more books like this by Gert Ledig, Michael Hofmann (Translator) add to wishlist 1942, at the Eastern Front. Soldiers crouch in horrible holes in the ground, mingling with corpses. Tunneled beneath a radio mast, German soldiers await the order to blow themselves up. Russian tanks, struggling to break through enemy lines, bog down in a swamp, while a German runner, bearing messages from headquarters to the front, scrambles ... see all copies from £5.74! new only from £5.95!
2	Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl more books like this by Gert Hofmann, Michael Hofmann (Foreword by) add to wishlist From dross to gold, an enchanting tale of love is spun. Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein... all praised the writings of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799), a mathematician, physicist and astronomer by profession, and an aphorist and satirist on the sly. In Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl , ... see all copies from £3.67! new only from £4.03! \| first editions
3	Balzacs Horse and Strs more books like this by Gert Hofmann, Christopher Middleton (Photographer) add to wishlist A poet is spied on day and night by a neighbor who writes his obituary and waits for his death. Balzac leaves an opulent Paris theater and enters a nightmarish world beneath the city. These are but two of the many tales in this volume. see all copies from £4.98! new only from £6.23! \| first editions
4	Film Explainer more books like this by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist This novel tells the story of Karl Hoffman, the author's grandfather, who is the piano player and film explainer in Limbach, Saxony. The arrival of sound puts the film explainer at odds with his greatest love, the cinema. Then the Nazis arrive, bringing with them a hope of a return to the old ways. see all copies from £2.55! new only from £25.55! \| first editions
5	The parable of the blind more books like this by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £1.31! new only from £21.19! \| first editions
6	The Stalin Organ by Gert Ledig (Translated By Michael Hofmann) add to wishlist "The Stalin Organ" - a slang military term for a multiple rocket launcher - is the first of Gert Ledig's triad of books on World War II, written in swift succession in the 1950s. Switching between the German and Russian lines, Ledig brings us the experience of war from both sides of the conflict, as the two armies tensely hold out for the other ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.67! \| first editions
7	Balzac's horse and other stories by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist A collection of short stories ranging from the comic to the macabre by German writer Gert Hofmann, the author of "Our Conquest", "The Parable of the Blind" and "The Spectacle at the Tower", which won the Alfred Doblin Prize in 1982. see all copies from £1.25! first editions
8	The Spectacle at the Tower more books like this by Christopher Middleton (Translator), Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £4.98! new only from £7.79! \| first editions
9	The Parable of the Blind more books like this by Christopher Middleton (Translator), Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! first editions
10	Our Conquest by Christopher Middleton (Translator), Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £10.29! new only from £10.29! \| first editions
11	Auf Dem Turm. Roman by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £13.48!
12	Payback more books like this by Gert Ledig, Michael Hofmann (Introduction by), Shaun Whiteside (Translator) add to wishlist Over the course of seventy minutes, the effects of an Allied raid on an unnamed German city in July 1944 are recounted in horrifying detail. As American planes discharge their bombs over the city, far below, in the midst of the inferno, an elderly couple trapped in their appartment try to live out their last moments with dignity. Elsewhere, a man ... see all copies from £10.58!
13	Die Denunziation : Novelle by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £5.67!
14	Luck more books like this by Hofmann add to wishlist A child's-eye view of a family in decline, Luck combines humour and suspense with a heartbreaking pathos. This is the story of a nuclear family: father, mother, daughter and son. But all is not as it seems, for Mother is in love with Herr Herkenrath, and now father and son will have to leave home. Or will they? The mother sits in her room, ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.07! \| first editions
15	Before the rainy season more books like this by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist A story of a Nazi fugitive in Bolivia. In a guarded hacienda a strange assortment of humanity is dependent on Heinrich von Ung, now known as Don Enrique. He lives in fear, and the older he gets, the more his fear grows. The German author won the Alfred Doblin Prize for "The Spectacle at the Tower". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
16	The spectacle at the tower by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.58! \| first editions
17	Our conquest more books like this by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist A novel seen from the perspective of a German child. Starting at the end of World War II with a family hiding in a cellar from the Allies, it proceeds backwards, through memories, to reveal their town's shameful history. The author won the Alfred Doblin Prize for "The Spectacle at the Tower". see all copies from £2.04! signed copies \| first editions
18	Die kleine Stechardin : Roman by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £6.54! new only from £11.66! \| first editions
19	Gespräch über Balzacs Pferd : vier Novellen more books like this by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £8.47!
20	The burgomaster. more books like this by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £8.10! first editions
21	Die Fistelstimme : Roman by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £13.48!
22	Veilchenfeld : Erzählung. by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £21.10!
23	Language - Text - Bildung Sprache - Text - Bildung: Essays in Honour of Beate Dreike Essays Fur Beate Dreike more books like this by Andreas Stuhlmann (Editor), Patrick Studer (Editor) add to wishlist This collection of essays honours Beate Dreike - an outstanding scholar and teacher, who has been working at the crossroads between philosophy, linguistics, and literature for the past thirty years. The contributors to this volume, colleagues from Cork University College, Ireland, Great Britain and Germany follow lines of research Beate Dreike has ... see all copies from £23.98! new only from £23.98!
24	Vor der Regenzeit : Roman by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £4.12!
25	Notre Philosophe: Roman by Gert Hofmann add to wishlist see all copies from £26.57! new only from £26.57!

Page 1 of 3: 1 2 3 Next>

Browse authors

Browse subjects

Our Money-Back Guarantee

We guarantee every item's condition, as described on Alibris. If you are not satisfied that an item is as described, return your purchase for a refund.

	In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje see all from £1.24! new only from £5.25!
	The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth, Michael Hofmann (Translator) see all from £1.25! new only from £12.43!
	Bread Givers by Anzia Yezierska, Alice Kessler-Harris (Foreword by) see all from £1.24! new only from £5.00!
	Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss see all from £6.66! new only from £13.74!
	Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman see all from £4.47! new only from £7.77!
	Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt see all from £8.67! new only from £10.21!