Description: Presents fifteen new German-language novelists and a close reading of an exemplary work of each for academics and the general reader alike.
Brief description: STEPHEN BROCKMANN is Professor of German with courtesy appointments in English and History at Carnegie Mellon University.
Review Quotes: Marven and Taberner have succeeded in assembling well-written essays on a wide variety of emerging authors that nevertheless connect with each other in their shared attention to subjects that are pervasive at the beginning of this new millennium. Their introduction to these authors will be welcomed by literary scholars as well as anybody else with an interest in the recent German literary scene.-- "MONATSHEFTE"