Ralph Manheim Knihy

Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasies - lusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England, where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the "scientist" des Pereires. This inventor, con-man, incorrigible optimist - whose last project is to grow enormous potatoes by electricity - rescues him, if only temporarily; for the reader he is one of the most lovable charlatans in French literature.

A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust. After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe’s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow émigré, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy—and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

Rob, čo chceš– tak znie nápis na symbole neobmedzenej moci v krajine Fantázia. Skutočný význam tejto vety sa však Bastián dozvie až po dlhom a dobrodružnom hľadaní...Dvanásťročný Bastián Baltazár Bux nie je v škole veľmi obľúbený, preto je často sám a najlepšie sa cíti medzi policami plnými kníh. Jedného dňa neodolá a z antikvariátu ukradne tajuplnú hrubú knihu so znakom dvojhlavého hada na obálke a s dvojfarebným písmom. Keď sa do nej začíta, kniha ho nečakane vtiahne do svojho deja a chlapec sa tak stane súčasťou napínavého príbehu. Dozvie sa, že krajine Fantázia a jej vládkyni, detskej kráľovnej, hrozí zánik. Kráľovná si na pomoc zavolá Atreja a poverí ho, aby sa spolu s drakom šťastia Falkom pokúsil zachrániť krajinu. Všetko však nasvedčuje tomu, že práve nešikovnému Bastiánovi, ktorý je v triede terčom posmechu, sa podarí odvrátiť zánik Fantázie a zachrániť jej podivuhodných obyvateľov.Nekonečný príbeh, ktorý prvýkrát vyšiel v Nemecku roku 1979, preložili do viac ako 35 jazykov a predalo sa vyše osem miliónov výtlačkov.Na motívy skvelej Endeho knihy nakrútil režisér Wolfgang Petersen roku 1984 rovnomenný film. Obľúbili si ho už celé generácie detí aj rodičov a dodnes rovnako uchvacuje malých aj veľkých divákov.

The German existentialist delineates his theories concerning the nature, problems, and limitations of man's being

Margarete Buber, the journalist daughter of Martin Buber, and Milena Jesenska, the beautiful lover of Kafka, met in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. For four terrible years, the two women formed an extraordinary bond and made a pact that if only one survived, the other would bear witness. Only Margarete lived to remember. This is her story of Milena--of fearless love, sacrifice, and nobility.

Gevoelens en ervaringen van een Joodse kleuter, die tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog met zijn ouders enkele jaren in een concentratiekamp doorbrengt.

Rosshalda je román výnimočného autora – nositeľa Nobelovej ceny za literatúru – ktorý dosiaľ v slovenskom preklade ešte nevyšiel. Rosshalda je vlastne názov panského domu a súčasne dejisko hlbokej manželskej krízy maliara Johanna Veragutha a pianistky Adele. Spája ich už iba láska k mladšiemu synovi Pierrovi... Hesse v sčasti autobiografickom románe z roku 1914 stvárňuje konflikty vlastného životného príbehu, no rozvíja i svoje pochybnosti o manželstve, najmä ak ho uzatvárajú umelecké dvojice. Manželstvo totiž pokladal za konvenčnú meštiacku inštitúciu... Kniha v brilantnom preklade Mariána Hatalu vychádza v edícii TERRA.

@lt;DIV@gt;It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book@lt;br@gt;@lt;/div@gt;

A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book