Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann, Other Press, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-59051-394-1
Swiss author Stamm (Agnes) examines the complications of love and attraction in this captivating novel. Alex and his gorgeous and brilliant wife, Sonia, run an architecture firm and have a lovely daughter. It is the life he always thought he...
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Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-59051-324-8
The characters in Stamm’s generous new collection engage right away via their seeming transparency. No sense of author omniscience separates the reader from protagonists coping with issues large (the death of a spouse) or small (a bandage put on too
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Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59051-696-6
Gillian, a prosperous television personality, wakes up in a hospital with her face horribly disfigured, and her husband, Matthias, dead, a casualty of a car crash that followed an argument at the end of a night of revelry. As Gillian slowly recovers
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Peter Stamm, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator , trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press $24.95 (243p) ISBN 978-1-59051-169-5
The grim novel Unformed Landscape
by the Swiss-German author Stamm was set in a blank, chilly Northern Europe; this collection of 20 stories features an ill-fitting assortment of emotionally shallow characters moving through similarly textureless...
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Peter Stamm, Author, Michael Hofmann, Translator , trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press $23.95 (229p) ISBN 978-1-59051-279-1
In the quiet but evocative latest from Swiss writer Stamm (Unformed Landscape
), Andreas, a 40-something Swiss expatriate, teaches German in Paris and spends much of his time musing over Fabienne, the lost love of his youth, while sleeping with...
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Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $18.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59051-811-3
The brief, lucid chapters in Stamm’s (All Days Are Night) short novel, first published in Germany in 1998, hint at something deeper roiling underneath. At the same time, there’s a wryness throughout, reminiscent of Beckett’s deadpan humor,...
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Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $15.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59051-828-1
Stamm (Agnes) takes readers on a dazzling journey through Switzerland and matrimony. Thomas, following his return from a family vacation, suddenly decides to exit his garden, leaving behind his wife, Astrid, and their small children, Ella and Konrad.
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Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $14.99 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-59051-979-0
Swiss novelist Stamm (To the Back of Beyond) ruminates on fictions of the past and the recursive nature of time in this excellent doppelganger tale. Cristoph, a successful Swiss writer living in Stockholm, notices an actor with a startling...
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Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $22.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-6354-2030-2
The dozen stories in this introspective and gloomy collection from Stamm (The Sweet Indifference of the World) all have a latent uneasiness to them, making the reader turn the pages both quickly and apprehensively. Standout stories build within this
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Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $15.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-63542-275-7
In Stamm’s affecting latest (after The Sweet Indifference of the World), a middle-aged archivist reminiscences about a former love who’s now a famous singer. When the unnamed narrator’s archival work for a newspaper becomes irrelevant in the digital
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Peter Stamm, trans. from the German by Michael Hofmann. Other Press, $17.99 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-63542-444-7
Stamm (The Archive of Feelings) explores the entanglement between a documentarian and her cagey subject in this sly metafictional novel. The sardonic narrator, a self-described “pragmatic hedonist” named Andrea, struggles to make a documentary about
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