Uwe Johnson Knihy

„Im Juni 1959, als die Mutmassungen über Jakob gedruckt wurden, siedelte ihr Autor aus der DDR nach West-Berlin um. Ihm war bewußt, daß dieses Buch, da es inhaltlich und in seiner Ästhetik der offiziellen Ideologie der DDR widersprach, im Osten Deutschlands nicht erscheinen konnte. Es spürt nämlich dem Tod des Eisenbahn-Dispatchers Jakob Abs nach. »Aber Jakob ist immer quer über die Gleise gegangen.« Handelt es sich um Mord, Selbstmord oder um einen Unfall? Jakob Abs war, und dies ist der Grund für die Spekulationen über ihn, im Herbst 1956 mehreren Belastungen zugleich ausgesetzt: Seine Mutter war in den Westen gegangen; und die Staatssicherheit versuchte ihn dazu zu bewegen, Gesine Cresspahl, die 1953, »nach dem Aufstand der Arbeiter und Bauern gegen die Regierung der Arbeiter und Bauern«, in die BRD übergesiedelt war, zu einer Tätigkeit für den Staatssicherheitsdienst zu überreden. Formal führt der Roman, durch das Mittel des Dialogs und des Monologs, die Suche nach der Wahrheit vor, einer Wahrheit nicht nur über den Tod von Jakob Abs, sondern auch der über die Verhältnisse in der DDR.“

A landmark of 20th Century literature set in late 1960s New York, this novel is now available in English for the first time. Uwe Johnson's masterpiece unfolds through daily entries, beginning on August 20, 1967, as the author navigates the uncertainties of the year ahead. The central character, Gesine Cresspahl, a German émigré living on the Upper West Side, is a bank translator and single mother to ten-year-old Marie. The narrative intertwines their lives with significant events reported in the New York Times, reflecting the tumultuous socio-political landscape of the era, including civil rights struggles and the Vietnam War. Gesine, born as Hitler rose to power, shares her family's history and her own childhood in Nazi Germany with Marie, emphasizing the importance of understanding their roots. The story explores the connections between past and present, revealing how the world of the 1960s and the historical context of earlier years are interlinked. Published in four volumes over a decade, this work has garnered comparisons to Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's In Search of Lost Time, yet it stands out for its rich tapestry of voices and narratives. It is a profound exploration of family, identity, and history, blending the personal with the political in a deeply engaging and richly detailed manner. Now translated by Damion Searls, this novel is a remarkable revelation.

When zero visibility forces Biggles to land his Vandal amphibian aircraft on the North Sea he thinks he's just got a spot of aeroplane bother. Bigger trouble is ahead for Biggles when he takes an unchartered ride in a flying boat manned by 'Blackbeard' - a cohort of the Russian Airfleet and accomplice in a plot to bomb Britain.

A Trip to Klagenfurt is the story of a pilgrimage. Only days after the burial of Ingeborg Bachmann, writer Uwe Johnson journeyed to her gravesite in the Austrian city of Klagenfurt, where Bachmann had grown up. Johnson meticulously observes the landscape of the city by layering its cultural, physical, and historical background with Bachmann'' own letters, interviews, and largely autobiographical writings. The result is a personal consideration of a life and a friendship, which Johnson uses to illuminate his entire generation--one haunted by a history buried in the hope that it will be forgotten. Eccentric, brooding, and innovative, A Trip to Klagenfurt invites the reader to consider the vast forces behind a single extraordinary life, and to mourn that life's passing.

The second volume of a titanic masterpiece of twentieth-century literature, named one of the best books of 2019 by The New York Times critics. Anniversaries, Volume 2 begins on April 20, 1968. Before long Marie will be devastated by the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, even as the news of the Prague Spring has awakened Gesine’s long-dashed hopes that socialism could be a humanism. Meanwhile, her boss at the bank has his own ideas about Czechoslovakia, and Gesine faces the prospect of having to move there for work. Continuing the story of her past from Anniversaries, Volume 1, Gesine describes the Soviet occupation of her hometown, Jerichow, where her father was installed as mayor and ended up in a brutal prison camp. Gesine herself charts a rebellious course through school, ever more bitterly conscious of the moral ugliness of life behind the Iron Curtain. As the year of the novel comes to its end, past and present converge and the novel circles back to its beginnings: Gesine tells Marie about her father, Jakob, dead before she was born, about leaving East Germany, and, as history threatens to take them away from New York, about the beginning of their life together in the city that they have both come to love.

Even in the bitter environment of war, the men of 266 Squadron find time to share some laughs as their friendships strengthen, ready for the thrill of next deadly aerial combat.Join cult hero and flying ace, Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth on another action packed adventure!

This work presents a translation of the initial two volumes of Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage, a significant literary piece that explores themes of memory, identity, and the passage of time. The narrative intricately weaves personal and historical events, reflecting on life in post-war Germany. Through its rich character development and profound insights, the text invites readers to engage with its complex interplay of individual experiences and broader societal issues.

Johnson digs deep into Sussex's past, presenting the reader with centuries of criminality and vice, of wretched living conditions and blind fate which so often leads to appalling consequences. If it's macabre, if it's ghoulish, if it's bizarre, then it's here!

The escort fell in on either side of the prisoners, and at a word of command the party moved forward. In the uneasy atmosphere of Europe between the two World Wars, Biggles, Algy and Ginger are persuaded to defend a small middle European country from an aggressive neighbour backed up by an unnamed Big Power.