Framboise Simon returns to the French village where she grew up as a girl during the German occupation, and relives the tragic events that surrounded her family.

"The return to print of a classic novel of postwar American literature credited with being the most accurate fictional portrayal of the promises and bitter disappointments that heralded the expatriation of Black intellectuals and artists. The protagonist of John Williams's angry and brilliant novel The Man Who Cried I Am is Max Reddick, a Black American writer-a gifted novelist, a journalist, and a presidential speechwriter-who has spent his career...

"Thomas Brussig's classic German novel, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the wall."-- Young Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin of a street, the Sonnenallee, whose long end extends beyond the Berlin Wall outside his apartment building. Like his friends and family, who have their own quixotic dreams--to secure an original English pressing of Exile on Main...