Christoph Hein, novelist, playwright, and essayist, is one of Europe’s most respected literary and political voices. He is the author of the widely translated and internationally acclaimed novels Willenbrock, The Distant Lover, and The Tango Player, among others. A former president of PEN Germany and the winner of several literary prizes, he lives in Berlin.
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In “one of the most important German novels of recent years,”* a man, a town, and a country wrestle with fifty years of displacement and political...
A fascinating glimpse into the world of one prosperous man, set upon by the forces of the new world. Bernd Willenbrock is the owner of a used-car dealership...