Rudolf Toman Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

"Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Emilia sells the last of her jewelry; Philipp gives himself up to despair; with their interracial love affair, Carla Behrend and Washington Price scandalize their neighbors-who still expect gifts of chocolate and coffee; a boy hustles to sell a stray dog; Mr. Edwin, a visiting poet, prepares for a reading; Frau Behrend disowns her daughter; Alexander stars as the Archduke in a new German Super-production; and Susanne seeks out a night to remember. In Michael Hofmann's words, "in their sum, they are the totality of existence." Koeppen spares no one and sees all in this penetrating and intense novel that surveys those who remain, and those who have just arrived, in a damaged society. As inventive as Joyce and as compulsively readable as Dickens, Pigeons on the Grass is a great lost classic"-- Provided by publisher

Výbor sedmi kratších próz, povídek a novel. Krásným jazykem je v nich zachyceno několik velmi odlišných podob lásky.

A boy's village childhood with all the traditional attributes - father, mother, brother, sister, a house on a lake, tree-climbing, going to the races, music lessons, a bicycle, a crush on a girl in the class - is bedevilled by the mystifying appearances of the eccentric Mr. Sommer. Moving through the landscape in silent haste, like a man possessed, with his empty rucksack and his long, odd-looking walking stick, Mr Sommer runs like a black thread through the boy's days.

Životní příběh Alice Hesenské, vnučky královny Viktorie, která se provdala za cara Mikuláše II. a byla korunována v r. 1896 jako carevna Alexandra Fjodorovna.

Normalerweise gehen Kontrabässe unter im Orchester, es gibt keine Soloparts, höchstens Duos. Im Leben des Musikers ist der Kontrabaß Geliebte, Freund, Feind und Verhinderer des eigenbestimmten Weges. Soziale Analyse, Slapstick und Milieukomik und ein fest gespannter Bogen, der monologisch und entschlossen den Schwingungen des menschlichen Zusammenspiel(en)s nachstreicht.

Osudy žen, které se zapsaly do dějin jako milenky slavných mužů.

History and fate collide as the Nazis rise to power in The Night in Lisbon, a classic tale of survival from the renowned author of All Quiet on the Western Front.   With the world slowly sliding into war, it is crucial that enemies of the Reich flee Europe at once. But so many routes are closed, and so much money is needed. Then one night in Lisbon, as a poor young refugee gazes hungrily at a boat bound for America, a stranger approaches him with two tickets and a story to tell.   It is a harrowing tale of bravery and butchery, daring and death, in which the price of love is beyond measure and the legacy of evil is infinite. As the refugee listens spellbound to the desperate teller, in a matter of hours the two form a unique and unshakable bond—one that will last all their lives.

Filipina Welserová a její léčitelské umění. Podstatná část knihy obsahuje původní, dosud nepublikované léčitelské recepty, s připojeným přehledem léčivých rostlin a návodem k jejich užívání.

V mnichovské vilové čtvrti objeví mladí milenci mrtvého muže v oplu.Ohlásí vše na policii.Vražedná zbraň ani nábojnice se nenaleznou.Nikdo nic neslyšel a otisky prstů také nejsou.Dost dlouho kriminalistům potrvá než najdou správnou stopu a zjistí,že jde o komplikovaný zločin finančního podvodu,provedeného přes švícarskou úvěrovou banku.