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Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens by Michael Kampfmüller

Posted on January 26, 2015 by forwardtranslations

One of the pile of new books I got for Christmas was Michael Kampfmüller’s Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens, inspired by a glowing review in New Books in German a few years back. It sums the book up much better than … Continue reading →

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Captain of the Steppe by Oleg Pavlov, tr. Ian Appleby

Posted on October 28, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Deep in the desolate steppe, Captain Khabarov waits out his service at a camp where the news arrives in bundles of last year’s papers and rations turn up rotting in their trucks. One Spring, he decides to plant a field … Continue reading →

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