MFA books
Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann, trans. Granta, 2003 ISBN: 1862076057 The Radetzky March is the story of three generations of the Trotta family. The novel opens at the battle of Solferino, when the young Lieutenant Trotta saves the life of the Emperor and is ennobled. He owes the Empire everything, and his son also becomes a conscientious servant […]
Franz Kafka; Michael Hofmann, trans. New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004 ISBN-10: 0811215695 ISBN-13: 9780811215695 Franz Kafka’s Amerika: The Man Who Disappeared at last has the translator it deserves. Michael Hofmann’s startlingly visceral and immediate translation revives Kafka’s great comedy, and captures a new Kafka, free from Prague and loose in the new world, a Kafka shot through with […]
Joseph Roth; Michael Hofmann, trans. W.W. Norton & Company, 2003 ISBN: 0393051455 Joseph Roth (1894–1939), the greatest European newspaper correspondent of his age, left the splintering Weimar Republic for Paris in 1925. Translated and collected together here for the first time in English, the exhilarating pieces in Report from a Parisian Paradise evoke, in a tone of lucid […]
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Franz Kafka; Michael Hofmann, trans. Schocken, 2006 ISBN-10: 0805212078 ISBN-13: 978-0805212075 The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century’s most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Illness set him free to write a series of philosophical fragments: some […]
Michael Hofmann, ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006 ISBN-10: 0374105359 ISBN-13: 978-0374105358 This groundbreaking anthology will serve as the standard for years to come. Editor Michael Hofmann has assembled brilliant translations of the major German poets, from Rilke and Brecht to Durs Grunbein and Jan Wagner, in an approachable, readable, and endlessly interesting collection. Here […]
Jill Ciment Crown, 1999 ISBN: 0517702029 The author of the critically hailed Half a Life steps boldly into world-class literary territory with this tightly structured yet richly expansive literary thriller that will call to mind the work of Graham Greene and Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky. Thomas, a renowned American anthropologist, his much younger wife Helene, and Finster, […]
Jill Ciment Pantheon, 2005ISBN: 0375423257 Jill Ciment’s writing has been called “luminous . . . sad, affecting” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) and “rich in observation and insight” (Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times). Now in her new novel, her third, Jill Ciment turns her eye to a painter’s world in the early years of the twentieth […]
Jill Ciment Pantheon, 2009 ISBN: 9780375425226 A gasoline tanker truck is “stuck” in the Midtown Tunnel. New Yorkers are panicked . . . . Is this the next big attack? Alex, an artist, and Ruth, a former schoolteacher with an FBI file as thick as a dictionary, must get their beloved dachshund, whose back legs […]
Sidney Wade Yapi Kredi Yayinlar, 1998 One of the most important contemporary English-speaking women poets, Sidney Wade, in Turkish for the first time, writing on Istanbul and Turkey. Transforming the lived world into poetry, she brings her impressions of the city and the nation to life.
Sidney Wade University of South Carolina Press, 1998 ISBN: 1570032688 In this new collection of poetry, Sidney Wade includes poems written in many forms that touch on a variety of subjects, all informed by a singular voice and an intensely vibrant language. The volume is set primarily in Istanbul and illuminates physical and metaphysical borders […]