Resolution
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Buchenwald
Ian Buruma
‘Once upon a time, on top of a green hill, high above the red roofs of Weimar, there was an oak tree.’
Halle by Day
Hans Joachim Ellerbrock
‘Partly as a result of emissions from these plants, but more particularly because brown coal is burnt in private houses, Halle has the highest level of air pollution in Germany.’
The Stone-Thrower from Eisenhuttenstadt
Max Thomas Mehr & Regine Sylvester
‘It has nothing to do with the question of the foreigners. No one in Eisenhuttenstadt wants the foreigners here.’
A Hippy Among Communists
Klaus Schlesinger
‘In March 1975, thirty years after the collapse of German fascism, N., a student from Berlin – bearded and long-haired – attended a series of lectures at a university on the Baltic coast.’
Shaking Hands with the Zeitgeist
Wolf Biermann
‘He was, after all, more than a mere hiccup in the history of the world.’
The Devil’s Kitchen
Russell Hoban
‘I'll now describe this artefact as precisely as I can because I want to make it perfectly clear that when I bought it there was no reason for me to think that it was anything more than what it appeared to be.’
The Table
Pawel Huelle
‘‘Oh, that table!’ my mother would shriek, ‘I just can't stand it a moment longer! Other people have decent furniture.’’
Lederhosen
Haruki Murakami
‘Please, I beg you. If I do not buy lederhosen now, I will never buy lederhosen.’
Ohne Mich: Why I Shall Never Return To Germany
Martha Gellhorn
‘Nothing would have brought me back except that I worried about the European Community whose full flowering I will surely not live to see but I invest my faith in it.’
Baghdad Diary
Nuha al-Radi
‘Other countries do wrong: look what Russia did in Afghanistan, or Turkey invading Cyprus, or Israel taking over Palestine and Lebanon. Nobody bombed them senseless. They were not even punished. Perhaps we have too much history.’
Zagreb
Dubravka Ugrešić
‘‘We’ll print your book if you bring us 140 kilos of paper,’ says my friend, a publisher. ‘Where can I find 140 kilos of paper?’ ‘I don’t know. That’s your problem, you’re the writer.’’
Dobrinja
Nedžad lbrišimović
‘The whole idea is that Adem is going to prevent the crimes that have already occurred.’
Starting Out in Chicago
James Atlas
‘Dangling Man was his M.A., Bellow liked to say; The Victim was his Ph.D.‘
When Did You Last See Your Father?
Blake Morrison
‘When did you last see your father? Was it when they burned the coffin? Put the lid on it? When he exhaled his last breath? When he last sat up and said something? When he last recognized me? When he last smiled? When he last did something for himself unaided?‘
A very young Dancer
Todd McEwen
‘I have a snapshot of the two of us: late on a summer afternoon we're playing in an inflatable wading pool.‘
The Names of Women
Louise Erdrich
‘Ikwe is the word for woman in the language of the Anishinabe, my mother's people, whose descendants, mixed with and married to French trappers and farmers, are the Michifs of the Turtle Mountain reservation in North Dakota.‘
The Contents of Pockets
Luc Sante
‘Time in its passing casts off particles of itself in the form of images, documents, relics, junk.‘
Breaking In
Andrew Motion
‘He dedicated The Less Deceived to her: it was the only collection of poems he dedicated to anyone.‘
Among the Tulips
Richard Holmes
‘When young James Boswell arrived in Holland in August 1763 at the age of twenty-two, his first impulse was to commit suicide.‘
Death of the Author
Lorna Sage
‘Her genius for estrangement came out of a thin-skinned extremity of response to the circumstances of her life and to the signs of the times.’
The Womanizer
Richard Ford
‘Austin turned up the tiny street – rue Sarrazin – at the head of which he hoped he would come to a larger one, one he knew, rue de Vaugirard, possibly, which he could take all the way to Josephine Belliard's apartment by the Luxembourg Gardens.’
Lady Max
Paul Theroux
‘You didn't become a Londoner simply by living there. After seven years I was still an alien.’
An Afghanistan Picture Show
William T. Vollmann
‘The windbreakers of the passengers standing at the rail fluttered violently.’
Einstein in Bern
Alan Lightman
‘Einstein and Besso walk slowly down Speichergasse in the late afternoon.’
Die Hel
David Goldblatt
‘Die Hel is a remote valley in the Swartburg Mountains of the south-western Cape.’
Look-Alikes
Nadine Gordimer
‘It was scarcely worth noticing at first; an out-of-work lying under one of the rare indigenous shrubs cultivated by the Botany Department on the campus.’
