Books by Marcel Beyer and Complete Book Reviews

The Karnau Tapes
The Karnau Tapes
Marcel Beyer, Author, John Brownjohn, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $23 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-100255-9
The events of this bleak novel of WWII are seen through the eyes of two Germans: Herr Karnau, a soft-spoken, 30-ish sound technician, and Helga, an eight-year-old in a privileged but chaotic household who must guide her five younger siblings through
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Spies
Spies
Marcel Beyer, Author, Breon Mitchell, Translator , trans. from the German by Breon Mitchell. Harcourt $24 (273p) ISBN 978-0-15-100859-9
The nameless narrator of Beyer's (The Karnau Tapes ) new novel has a fondness for peepholes: he relishes obscured glimpses and colors he's unable to see with his imagination ("What I can't see I must invent"). As a child, the...
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Kaltenburg
Kaltenburg
Marcel Beyer, trans. from the German by Alan Bance. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-15-101397-5
This mesmerizing foray into postwar Germany by celebrated author Beyer (Spies) is both a singularly researched work of historical fiction (with an ornithological bent), and a postmodern examination of the nature of memory. Falling under the wing of...
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