In Die Zeit they asked twenty authors what book they plan on giving as a present this Christams, in Welches Buch verschenken Sie ?
Lots of foreign/English-language offerings among them, as Clemens J. Setz offers up the new Michel Faber and Daniel Kehlmann suggests Michael Frayn's Matchbox Theater (yes, out in German before the US edition is available ...). Meanwhile, the estimable Friederike Mayröcker suggests ... some Jacques Derrida.
Lots of foreign/English-language offerings among them, as Clemens J. Setz offers up the new Michel Faber and Daniel Kehlmann suggests Michael Frayn's Matchbox Theater (yes, out in German before the US edition is available ...). Meanwhile, the estimable Friederike Mayröcker suggests ... some Jacques Derrida.