Michael Hofmann

Kairos tells the story of the romance begun in East Berlin at the end of the 1980s when nineteen-year-old Katharina meets by chance a married writer in his fifties named Hans. Their passionate yet...

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: a collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime,...

Kafka’s first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young immigrant Karl Rossmann who, after an embarrassing sexual misadventure, finds himself “packed off to America” by his parents....

It follows a young boy growing up in a quiet German village, where his childhood is filled with ordinary experiences, small adventures, and moments of curiosity. Throughout his youth, he repeatedly...