Description: On the anniversary of Wolfgang Koeppen's 120th year, the two remaining works in his postwar trilogy in Michael Hofmann's spectacular translation
Brief description: Pankaj Mishra is an Indian writer whose work focuses on literature and politics. He is the author of a novel, The Romantics, and several non-fiction books, including, most recently, The World After Gaza. His essays have appeared in many publications, and he is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and the Guardian.
Review Quotes: Wolfgang Koeppen, a remorselessly brilliant German writer of the twentieth century, has long remained scandalously obscure in the Anglophone world.--Pankaj Mishra