Set in Nazi Germany in 1939, this novel dives into powerful emotions and the impact books have on people. Meet Liesel Meminger, a foster child living outside of Munich, who survives by stealing books.

It certainly seems that way for Hans, in his early 50s, and 19-year-old Katharina, who meet on a bus in East Berlin in July 1986. Their encounter is a coup de foudre of desire and anguish.

The rest of the trailer continues to the same vibe as we see twisted beings and rooms once a source of comfort set ablaze. We finish with the detail that Karma: The Dark World is set to release on ...

Jenny Erpenbeck's novel 'Kairos' clocks a romance between a man of 58 and a 19-year-old woman in the dying years of East Germany. That's not even the interesting part ...

Then I encountered Walter Kempowski’s extraordinary novel “All for Nothing” (New York Review Books), first published in German in 2006, and now available in Anthea Bell’s vital translation.

Her previous novel, “Go, Went, Gone,” is a moving tale of a lonely East German professor, adrift in united Germany, finding parallels with the African migrants who have survived a sea journey ...

Her debut novel, The Dark Room, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2001, focused on a young German photographer blinded by patriotic fervour, a perspective juxtaposed with those of ...