Hello Gentle Reader
The Booker Prize for the UK and The Commonwealth Countries is/was/has, not been the only one to announce a long list for the award. The German Book Pirze long list has also been announced. I shall include the authors names, and the english translation (loosely translated that is) of all the authors below, and hopefully if research proves helpful maybe even a brief over view of what the novel is about.
Volker Harry Altwasser - "Last Fisherman."
Overview:
Volker oxbow lakes> Fishermen's Last 'is a homage to life on the seas, a farewell to a man's world, which has fallen into its rituals and traditions out of time. Besides furious descriptions of whaling and whale handling of the ship and sweeping maneuvers on the untamed sea unfolds a tender story that is permeated by a deep melancholy and wistfulness. A large ocean-going epic that tells of the sea, and always from the literature of the sea.
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Jan Brandt - "Against The World."
"A village in East Friesland cows graze in the meadows, now and then rips the noise of a low-flying the silence. Behind the trimmed Tujenhecken the new district, the flowers bloom, shine in the freshly waxed cars driveways.
In this world is the mid-seventies Daniel Kuper, born scion of a dynasty druggists. A lanky, reserved boy with too much imagination and too little
Opportunities. But soon strange things happen: In the middle of summer it comes to heavy snowfall, a crop circle is created, a student stands on the railway tracks, swastikas appear on the walls. For all of this is Daniel Kuper held responsible. And the more he tries to refute the allegations, the stronger he becomes entangled in them. Daniel Kuper starts a fight against the village and its inhabitants. They are the ones against which he rebelled, and they are the ones against whom he lost at the end.
"Is" against the world, a large German novel about the turn in West Germany, about pop culture in the province and friendships never go to the end."
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Michael Buselmeier - Wunsiedel
"In the summer of 1964, the young narrator Schoppe Moritz in the Upper Franconian town of Wunsiedel has spent ten painful weeks - his commitment to the held there annually Luisenburg Festival ran into a fiasco. 44 years later, is the former "Verfinsterungsort" Schoppe for different dar.
Although the narrator initially has trouble finding his way, but he likes it right away in the würzigen air of the Fichtelgebirge, he is taking romantic walks in the Frankish past research, for the graves of his hosts, his old director, and is unexpectedly before the grave of Rudolf Hess. Also, the main town unlucky seen before, the Naturbühne the Luisenburg looking at it, but the once-beloved theater has become completely foreign to him, the tattered theater rock be final. In walking and watching is the chance of a fresh start."
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Alex Capus - "Leo and Louise,"
"Two young people fall in love, but war brings them apart: this is the story of Leon and Louise. It begins with their meeting in the First World War in France on the Atlantic coast, but then it disconnects an air raid with violence. They keep each other up for dead, Leon, marries Louise goes her own way - until they meet again by chance in 1928 in the Paris Métro. Alex Capus told with marvelous ease and great intensity of love in a century of war, about this couple that holds on against all conventions of his love and leads a headstrong, sometimes outrageously funny double life. The story of a great love, lived with the whole world."
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Wilhelm Genazino - "If We Were Animals."
"Life in the modern world too much to ask: daily presence at the workplace, including commitment and a friendly face, the use of transport and visiting supermarkets. And then even the private life. Inevitably, the moment comes in which a man does not know what to do - and before you know it, it is women rather than an even three. Ah, but if we were animals and could miss the daily demands easy! Wilhelm told Genazino ironic, witty and wicked from a man who can endure the day only when he breaks through the ordinary rules."
( http://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buecher/buch.html?isbn=978-3-446-23738-4 )
Navid Kermani - "Your Name."
"On 8 June 2006 Navid Kermani begins his new book, and it is one of the most unusual novels of our time. Here one writes about everything there is to know about his life and the lives of all: the present and the past of his family, the memory of deceased friends and the rousing reading Jean Paul's and Hölderlin. The story of his grandfather, who went to Germany from the Middle East is at the heart of the novel. Again and again, urging the novelist of the decisive moment in between: the writing. "Your name" is a novel that takes the most private in the same view as the story in which we live - a book that will change our image of the present term."
( http://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buecher/buch.html?isbn=978-3-446-23743-8 )
Esther Kinsky - "Banatsko."
"Banatsko 'is a celebration of a landscape, the northern Banat.
Never was this no man's land between Hungary, Serbia
Romania and considered with such a loving gaze, his melancholic poetry thus brought to fruition in
This new novel by Esther Kinsky."
( http://www.matthes-seitz-berlin.de/scripts/buch.php?ID=375 )
Angelika Klüssendorf - "The Girl."
"The touching story of self-assertion. Angelika Klüssendorf tells of a young strong girl, who works out of everything that surrounds it and holds down: the tyrannical mother, the authoritarian teacher, the bureaucratic state apparatus. In the beginning, everything seems to already be over: The father drinks and appears only sporadically, the mother leaves out their anger on the children's classmates shun the girl, the younger brother wraps off completely. And yet there is a force that carries the girl. The pictures from "Brehm's Animal Life," which they admired, the dream of a small house with garden in the country, Grimm's fairy tales. Again and again people who mean something to her and she stopped. One thing she has learned: One must take what you need. Even if she is caught shoplifting several times and finally put into the home, they can also be adjusted to the new situation there. And the children's home is in a surprising way to a retreat where childhood can be the first time live. With its clear, concise, precise prose, laconic and very dry humor Angelika Klüssendorf put the reader into a world that permits no childhood. Breathlessly follow an adolescent who has nothing on which to rely, but does not lose the will to live - not a pitiable victim, but a strong, cryptic character. A literary masterpiece!"
( http://www.amazon.de/Das-M%C3%A4dchen-Angelika-Kl%C3%BCssendorf/dp/346204284X )
Doris Knecht - Gruber's
"In Doris Knecht's debut novel is the careerists Gruber goes to the collar. The manager, mid-thirties, has his life between the top job, airport lounges, apartment and bed design stories are nicely furnished. He fancies himself as a cynical knowingness that brings his mistress, sometimes even to tears, so they learn what distinguishes the reality of TV soaps. That he was confused but even with a cool, sexy superheroes, but that he then experienced a bit smaller and dimmer than the reality that needs to Gruber, is discovered as a tumor in his abdomen. Gruber celebrate by drinking, and beating themselves. Gruber makes self-awareness and chemotherapy. Gruber and falls in love. Finally, he is whole again. But he is at the end a better person. Maybe just a little more open, loving and willing to compromise. Maybe. Snappy and point range drives Doris preceded servant their highly neurotic and often comic heroes, to the arms of a clever Berlin DJane - which sees Gruber anything not even Gruber can even see in themselves, and which is also in love, Richard, ... A complex novel full of wit and rage. And a hero, in which everyone recognizes - even if not he wants."
( http://www.amazon.de/Gruber-geht-Doris-Knecht/dp/3871346918 )
Peter Kurzeck - "Eve."
"Like "No Spring" (1987) performs "eve" straight into the life of the narrator in Staufenberg the postwar period, and you can enjoy this well-thousand-page book just for the fullness of his precise miniatures. From the early fifties until the late seventies into it changed the face of Stauffenberg. The consequences are visible today in almost every other western German village, the roads paved, old trees are felled, the pond filled up, cleans up the corridor. The novel tells how the villagers, armed with DIY materials, "beautify" their homes, fill their new refrigerators, as they open the doors to the living room introduction of television. Highways, ring roads, supermarkets are being built, colorful leaflets clogging the mailboxes."
( http://www.faz.net/artikel/C30347/peter-kurzeck-vorabend-ueberzeitliches-schattentheater-30332294.html )
Ludwig Laher - "Procedure."
"Jelena, a Kosovo Serb, is in her home repeatedly been victims of unimaginable violence. Is not based on the state but by uninhibited members of the majority population. Severely traumatized, the young woman hopes after two suicide attempts at a new beginning in Austria. But there it gets into the mills of an inhuman asylum law, which does not do justice to its name.
For months now dominates the public debate on asylum and ensures that each individual case by the media apprehended for violent controversy. Ludwig Laher transfers this red-hot topic on a literary level.
He tells the exact researched history Jelena than red thread of a disturbing novel, which focuses on the judiciary itself, is the world of the paragraphs and their application, a reflection of our Constitution in a double sense: complex, exciting discreet distance, enlightening and far from complex, issues to be addressed through the simple answers to."
( http://www.ludwig-laher.com/verfahren.htm )
Sibylle Lewitscharoff - "Blumenberg."
"Large, yellow, left: with enchanting is granted one night a lion in the study of the distinguished philosopher Blumenberg. The limbs stretched out comfortably on the Bucharateppich, his eyes still on the landlord. The device, with some effort, not upset, not even when the lion herabtrottet the next day in his lecture the aisle, back and forth mainly by Raubkatzenart. The banks are fully occupied, but none of the audience seems to see him. A refined Studentenulk? Or is it more likely an award from the highest level - for the last few philosophers who knows how to appreciate these lions?
The appearance of the animal into effect in several lives, not only in the lives of mountain flowers. Without realizing it, gets a handful of students in its spell, among them the thin filament Optatus Gerhard Baur, an ardent Blumenbergianer, and the delicate, high-propelled Isa, who falls under full sail in the wrong.
Blumenberg is only incidentally a tribute to a great philosopher, above all, it is a novel full of irresistible wit, a novel about a highly sympathetic Weltbenenner, which met the unnamable in the shape of a lion's affable."
( http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/blumenberg-sibylle_lewitscharoff_42244.html )
Thomas Melle - "Most Sick."
"Two young men standing at the forefront of an over-consumption and performance world - keep up and to the acceleration recorded their lives, overgrown: the idealistic Magnus ropes writes for the clients page of an oil company, feels as a loser and hates his work with the fury of a sleeper. Thorsten Kühnemund, managers and Macho suffers secretly on successful life filled with glossy print and alpha animal neuroses, he stunned himself with alcohol, fast sex and clubbing Moloch crashes in the city. Known from school, the two friends are reluctant to. Just then one of the facades. Magnus feels attracted to Tony's girlfriend Laura, and all three swirl into Unfounded. Thus, a search begins for some truth of feeling, thinking and doing - a search in the noise, pain and madness, and in his own soul ..."
( http://www.rowohlt.de/buch/2938937 )
Klaus Modick - "Sunset."
"Feuchtwanger, Bertolt Brecht and the Californian exile - the novel is an unusual friendship, world famous and wealthy, but shadowed by the suspicious batches of the McCarthy era, Lion Feuchtwanger in 1956 still lives in exile in California - the last of the great German emigrants. As he reached on an August morning, the news of the sudden death of Bertolt Brecht, he is deeply shaken. He had discovered Brecht's genius, had encouraged him, had been closely connected to him. In silent communion with his dead friend calls Feuchtwanger the stages of this growing friendship, their beginning in the Munich Soviet Republic, the literary triumphs of the twenties, the flight and life in exile. From his memories crystallize at the same time, the drive springs out of his own literary work: the mourning of the deceased as an infant daughter, his guilt and his ambition, the traumas of his childhood - and eventually the love and mortality. At the end of the day when the sun sinks in the Pacific Ocean, is the old Feuchtwanger aware of its strengths and weaknesses bright and took stock of their lives."
( http://www.amazon.de/Sunset-Klaus-Modick/dp/3821861177 )
Astrid Rosenfeld - "Adams Legacy."
"Adam Cohen is eighteen years old in 1938. Edward Cohen will grow by the year 2000. Two generations separate them but it brings a story. The power of family ties and the strength of this debut says affinities, and the fact that it only requires a meeting to change our lives forever."
( http://www.amazon.de/Adams-Erbe-Astrid-Rosenfeld/dp/3257067720 )
Eugen Ruge - "In Times of Diminishing Light."
"From the years of exile to turn into 89 years and goes beyond, this turbulent story of a German family. It runs from Mexico to Siberia to East Berlin through the peaks and through the depths of the 20th Century. This creates a wide panorama, Germany, a large novel, the story brings to life as a family history: great human by his maturity, his accuracy, his sense of humor. Three generations are the focus: the grandparents, still convinced Communists to return home in the early 50s the young GDR in order to play their part in building the new Republic. Her son, a young man emigrated to Moscow and later exiled to Siberia, takes the journey from the other end: He returns with his Russian wife in a petty bourgeois republic, in its changeability wants to believe he continues. The grandson, however, is the adopted home of their parents and grandparents to increasingly tight - until he, of all people on the ninetieth birthday of the patriarch, is in the West. The appeal of political utopia seems to darken from generation to generation: It is a time of diminishing light."
( http://www.amazon.de/Zeiten-abnehmenden-Lichts-Roman-Familie/dp/3498057863 )
Judith Schalansky - "The neck of the Giraffe."
"Three days in the life of a biology teacher – the last of her kind, a relic of the former GDR. This dry-humoured story is set in one of the most absurd places in the world: a school.
Adaptation is everything. Inge Lohmark is well aware of that; after all, she has been teaching biology for more than thirty years. Nothing will change the fact that her school is going to be closed in four years – in the dwindling town in the Eastern German countryside, there are fewer and fewer children. Lohmark’s husband, who was a cattle inseminator during the GDR era, is now breeding ostriches. Their daughter Claudia emigrated to the USA years ago and has no intention of having children. Everyone resists the course of nature that Inge Lohmark teaches every day in her classes. When she finds herself having feelings for a girl in the 9th grade that go beyond the love-hate relationship between students and teachers, her biologically determined world view becomes shaky. In increasingly outlandish ways, she tries to save what can no longer be saved."
( http://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/the_giraffe_s_neck-judith_schalansky_42177.html?d_view=english )
Jens Steiner - "Rabbits Life."
'"And somewhere got a rabbit's mother and her two boys once again in a gully, pulled from beneath the heavy lid over the hole. ... Somewhere, they would again lift a lid and into the light rise unpack. And and and start over. Again and again. "Lili leads an unsettled life, hires herself as a waitress, moved with their two children through Switzerland. She dreams of kitch good education, a family life, while the next one by dancing in dark cellars, their children their own devices. The little touches Werner incessantly through hotel hallways and spies on the guests. He dreams of being like his older sister. Emma is quiet, often simply sits at the window and scratches on her arms. In St. Moritz appeared one day at a man whose name is found all three very well known. Lili and take flight once more, until - finally even to their lives through a tragic event is falling apart."'
( http://www.amazon.de/Hasenleben-Jens-Steiner/dp/390877764X )
Marlene Streeruwitz - "The Pain-Maker."
"People are kidnapped, disappeared, imprisoned or tortured. Amy works for a private security service, they can only imagine the corruption and violence which is emerging as an abyss behind the secret operations. When she decides to get out, she finally falls into the clutches of an obscure but brutal organization.
Amy's lostness corresponds to the rings of the perception of reality. What do they do? Who is she herself? And above all: What happened on the day on which they can not remember?
Marlene Streeruwitz designs in her masterful novel an eerie and unforgettable scenario and asks for the location of the individual in an increasingly privatized public."
( http://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/die_schmerzmacherin/9783100744371 )
Antje Rávic Strubel - "Days in The Fall of Night."
"Antje Strubel Rávic tells of an unusual and irresistible love, and from the long shadow of a lost political system.
An island in the Baltic Sea. The young Erik falls in love with the seemingly unfathomable bird researcher Inez. But the two are observed. Without realizing it, they have long been embroiled in a political intrigue. The island is protected to the unprotected site. A novel that tells of a great love of the memories, legends and lies of our presence, but also the happiness that lies in the transitory."
( http://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/sturz_der_tage_in_die_nacht/9783100751362 )
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There you have it Gentle Reader, the twenty authors nominated for the German Book Prize, and who have made it on the Long List. It'll be intersting to see who will be placed on the Short List, and who will be the final winner. There appears to be many intersting novels here. It is just an unforunate reality that I may not be able to read them someday, but here is hoping the best writer wins. I alos apologize for the poor translations of titles, and even of the book summary's and overviews -- I used google translate.
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