The Sweet Indifference of the World

The Sweet Indifference of the World - Paperback

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The Sweet Indifference of the World - Paperback

The Sweet Indifference of the World - Paperback

by Peter Stamm
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by Peter Stamm (Author), Michael Hofmann (Translator)

"Originally published in German as Die sanfte Gleichgèultigkeit der Welt in 2018 by S. Fischer Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt am Main"--Copyright page.

Author Biography

Peter Stamm is the author of the novels The Sweet Indifference of the World, To the Back of Beyond, All Days Are Night, Seven Years, On a Day Like This, Unformed Landscape, and Agnes, and the short-story collections We're Flying and In Strange Gardens and Other Stories. His award-winning books have been translated into more than forty languages. For his entire body of work and his accomplishments in fiction, he was short-listed for the Man Booker International Prize in 2013, and in 2014 he won the prestigious Friedrich Hölderlin Prize. He lives in Switzerland.

Michael Hofmann has translated the work of Gottfried Benn, Hans Fallada, Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth, and many others. In 2012 he was awarded the Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His Selected Poems was published in 2009, Where Have You Been? Selected Essays in 2014, and One Lark, One Horse: Poems in 2019. He lives in Florida and London.
Number of Pages: 144
Dimensions: 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN
Publication Date: January 21, 2020
ISBN9781590519790
Author Peter Stamm
PublisherOther Press (NY)
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJanuary 2020
LanguageENG- English
Pages144
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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