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9783775733588 | Hatje Cantz Pub, October 31, 2012, cover price $55.00

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Product Description: Following the sudden death of his best friend, the narrator of The Executor is called to Turin to resolve the will and literary estate of this famous writer and professor. It is a considerable undertaking, as Rudolf had amassed not only a rather extensive collection of house pets (a goose, several ducks, tortoises, and a peacock—to say nothing of Caesar, the old dog), but also a voluminous library of books and research materials...read more
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9780151012688 | Italian edition edition (Houghton Mifflin, February 4, 2008), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Summoned to Turin following the death of his best friend to resolve the will and literary estate of the late writer and professor, the narrator finds a household populated by an extensive collection of house pets, a voluminous library of books and research materials, the late author's magnum opus, and the three women he had left behind--a widow, a secretary, and a lover.

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9780156034159 | Mariner Books, January 1, 2011, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Following the sudden death of his best friend, the narrator of The Executor is called to Turin to resolve the will and literary estate of this famous writer and professor.

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Product Description: Soul of Wood made Jakov Lind’s reputation as one of the most boldy imaginative postwar writers and it remains his most celebrated achievement. In the title novella and six subsequent stories, Lind distorts and refashions reality to make the deepest horrors of the twentieth century his own...read more
By Michael Kruger (introduced by), Jakov Lind and Ralph Manheim (trans)
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9781590173305 | New York Review of Books, January 5, 2010, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Soul of Wood made Jakov Lind’s reputation as one of the most boldy imaginative postwar writers and it remains his most celebrated achievement.

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9781580931519 | Monacelli Pr, September 23, 2004, cover price $75.00

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The arrival of Judit, an ambitious young cello player from Budapest who may or may not be his daughter, evokes memories of the past for a middle-aged German composer, who writes serious avant-garde music but makes a living writing TV theme music.
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9780151005918 | 1 edition (Harcourt, December 1, 2003), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The arrival of Judit, an ambitious young cello player from Budapest who may or may not be his daughter, evokes memories of the past for a middle-aged German composer, who writes serious avant-garde music but makes a living writing TV theme music.

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Product Description: An impassioned defense of books and the business of books from five of the world's seasoned and forward-looking publishers.A biennial gathering of publishers, editors, writers, and thousands of booklovers, the Jerusalem International Book Fair hosts provocative seminars exploring issues vital not only to members of the publishing and media communities but to the creation of an enduring cultural legacy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781585671090 | Overlook Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An impassioned defense of books and the business of books from five of the world's seasoned and forward-looking publishers.

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Product Description: A new collection of poems by the German poet Michael Kruger, At Night, Beneath Trees is his second volume of poetry to appear in English. This latest selection, drawn from his 1993 and 1996 collections, marks an important shift in his work; moving away from the deeply philosophical dialogues of his earlier work, Kruger engages here in reflective, lyrical musings on the meaning of existence...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780807614310 | George Braziller, February 1, 1998, cover price $12.50 | About this edition: A new collection of poems by the German poet Michael Kruger, At Night, Beneath Trees is his second volume of poetry to appear in English.

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Richard, a German anthropologist who had travelled in Brazil during the Nazi era with a Jewish assistant, Leo Himmelfarb, and used Himmelfarb's work to make his own reputation, receives a letter from his former companion on his eightieth birthday and must come to terms with the fact that his life and career are based on a lie
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9780807613634 | George Braziller, August 1, 1994, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Richard, a German anthropologist who had travelled in Brazil during the Nazi era with a Jewish assistant, Leo Himmelfarb, and used Himmelfarb's work to make his own reputation, receives a letter from his former companion on his eightieth birthday and must come to terms with the fact that his life and career are based on a lie

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9780807613436 | George Braziller, February 1, 1994, cover price $14.95

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9783631435588 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, December 1, 1993, cover price $63.95

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A lonely German painter living in the south of France is drawn into a web of mystery by an enigmatic woman who disappears after the death of a policeman
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9780807612972 | George Braziller, March 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A lonely German painter living in the south of France is drawn into a web of mystery by an enigmatic woman who disappears after the death of a policeman

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The narrator, a writer, disillusioned after taking nine years to write his first novel, finds more and more reasons to cut pages from his manuscript
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9780807612750 | 1 edition (George Braziller, March 1, 1992), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: The narrator, a writer, disillusioned after taking nine years to write his first novel, finds more and more reasons to cut pages from his manuscript

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