Ralph Manheim Libri

Death on the Installment Plan is the story of young Ferdinand's first 18 years. His life is one of hatred, of the grinding struggle of small shopkeepers to survive, of childhood sensations and fantasies - lusty, scatological, violent, but also poetic. There is a running battle with his ineffectual insurance clerk of a father, with his mother, who lives and whines around the junkshop she runs for the boys benefit; there is also the superbly funny Meanwell College in England, where the boy went briefly, a Dickensian, nightmare institution. Always there is humiliation, failure, and boredom, at least until he teams up with the "scientist" des Pereires. This inventor, con-man, incorrigible optimist - whose last project is to grow enormous potatoes by electricity - rescues him, if only temporarily; for the reader he is one of the most lovable charlatans in French literature.

A haunting classic from the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Shadows in Paradise reveals the deepest scars of the men and women who experienced the Holocaust. After years of hiding and surviving near death in a concentration camp, Ross is finally safe. Now living in New York City among old friends, far from Europe’s chilling atrocities, Ross soon meets Natasha, a beautiful model and fellow émigré, a warm heart to help him forget his cold memories. Yet even as the war draws to its violent close, Ross cannot find peace. Demons still pursue him. Whether they are ghosts from the past or the guilt of surviving, he does not know. For he is only beginning to understand that freedom is far from easy—and that paradise, however perfect, has a price. “The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

"Questo, ecco proprio questo era ciò che lui aveva sognato tanto spesso e che sempre aveva desiderato...: una stora che non dovesse mai avere fine. Il libro di tutti i libri" Michael Ende, figlio del pittore surrealista Edgar, è nato in Germania nel 1929. Ha lavorato nel mondo dello spettacolo e curato regie per il Teatro di Monaco. Oltre alla Storia infinita, grandissimo successo hanno avuto anche Momo>/i> (1981), Lo specchio nello specchio (1986) e l'azione scenica La favola dei saltimbanchi. Pubblicati dalla Salani sono Le avventure di Jim Bottone (1989) e La terribile banda de Tredici Pirati (1990).

Eroe di guerra, diplomatico, cineasta, Romain Gary si suicidò il 3 dicembre 1980. La sua scomparsa fece scalpore ma il vero colpo di scena arrivò quando, pochi mesi dopo la morte, si scoprì che Gary ed Emile Ajar, autore del romanzo "La vita davanti a sé", erano in realtà la stessa persona. Il libro, che narra le vicende di Momo, ragazzo arabo nella banlieu di Belleville, figlio di nessuno, accudito da una vecchia prostituta ebrea, vinse il Goncourt inaugurando uno stile gergale da banlieu e da emigrazione, cantore di quella Francia multietnica che cominciava a cambiare il volto di Parigi.

Margarete Buber, the journalist daughter of Martin Buber, and Milena Jesenska, the beautiful lover of Kafka, met in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1940. For four terrible years, the two women formed an extraordinary bond and made a pact that if only one survived, the other would bear witness. Only Margarete lived to remember. This is her story of Milena--of fearless love, sacrifice, and nobility.

«La sera la mamma mi domandò che cosa avevo fatto durante il giorno. Le raccontai che ero stato insieme ai ragazzi più grandi. Mi domandò se mi prendevano così senz'altro con loro e io le spiegai che ora sì, mi prendevano con loro, perché avevo superato la prova. Ero stato all'osservatorio. Lei mi domandò che cos'era, un osservatorio. Risposi che lo sapeva benissimo, che lì c'erano i cadaveri e che sapeva anche benissimo che mio padre era stato gettato sopra gli altri cadaveri e che non aveva neppure un lenzuolo e io avevo detto ai bambini che ne aveva sì uno, mentre avevo visto benissimo che non ne aveva. Mi misi a strillare che lei era matta a lasciare che lo buttassero così sugli altri cadaveri senza lenzuolo...».

Rosshalde is the classic story of a man torn between obligations to his family and his longing for a spiritual fulfillment that can only be found outside the confines of conventional society.Johann Veraguth, a wealthy, successful artist, is estranged from his wife and stifled by the unhappy union. Veraguth’s love for his young son and his fear of drifting rootlessly keep him bound within the walls of his opulent estate, Rosshalde. Yet, when he is shaken by an unexpected tragedy, Veraguth finally finds the courage to leave the desolate safety of Rosshalde and travels to India to discover himself anew.

@lt;DIV@gt;It all begins in the Stone Age, when a talking fish is caught by a fisherman at the very spot where millennia later Grass's home town, Danzig, will arise. Like the fish, the fisherman is immortal, and down through the ages they move together. As Grass blends his ingredients into a powerful brew, he shows himself at the peak of his linguistic inventiveness. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book@lt;br@gt;@lt;/div@gt;

A German art historian and a Polish art restorer find adventure and love in the cemetery business. Their vision is to offer plots in Gdansk to those Germans who had been exiled after World War II. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Line drawings by the Author. Translated by Ralph Manheim. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book