The Tanners by Robert Walser, with an Introduction by W.G. Sebald
(New York: New Directions, 2009).
Walser's first novel is a portrait of the artist as a young writer-to-be.
The Naked Eye by Yoko Tawada
(New York: New Directions/London: Portobello, 2009).
A story of multiple displacements dedicated to Catherine Deneuve.
The Assistant by Robert Walser, with Translator’s Afterword
(New York: New Directions, 2007; London: Penguin Classics, 2008). In this classic novel of fin-de-siècle Switzerland, a young man takes up a post as assistant to an inventor whose fortunes are on the wane.
The Book of Words by Jenny Erpenbeck
(New York: New Directions; London: Portobello, 2007).
A haunting account of life in a military dictatorship as seen through the eyes of a little girl.
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse, with Translator’s Preface,
Foreword by Tom Robbins (New York, Modern Library, 2006).
The classic tale of a young man searching for enlightenment.
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