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	The Searching Gaze, Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, Februar 2007 ISBN: 3-3120-0383-0 Already in his lodgings in Florence, people recommended that he should have his portrait painted by the young German painter who had resided there some time before. After the Accademia Clementia, the Florentine Accademia del Disegnio, the oldest in Italy, had made her an honorary member, too – in spite of her youth, her gender – and some weeks ago, the Accademia di San Luca had accepted her as well. “She is painting all the English in Rome”, Morgan wrote. David Garrick, whom he had seen in London’s Drury Lane theatre playing Macbeth, had sat for her in Naples. An unusual portrait, the American doctor decided... (read more...) New Books in German Order Information

	The Invention of Love and Death, Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, 2003, ISBN: 3-3120-0322-9 Three Rivers. A row of snow-capped peaks hover in the sky. While I approach, blending into the horizon, it seems conceivable to reach them. There are bare orange groves behind the houses of the next hamlet; the road starts climbing, leaving evaporated lakes and crippled forests in its wake. The writer's house is sitting in a landscape made of parched scrub, bleached by the sun and sunk into the soil. Nobody heard the approaching car. I push the warped door open and follow the voices. (read more...) Order Information

	The Silent Rider, Novel, Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, 1998, ISBN: 3-3120-0242-7 Ringing their bells and blowing their bagpipes, they marched out of town to meet the fish cart, this morning. They will claim, in time, to have removed condemned men from their gallows, freed prisoners from gaol and to have been followed by all the townsfolk. This is the plan the citizens of Núrnberg intend to follow in order to lure heaven's benediction and the merchants' swelling purses into their town... (read more...) Order Information

	The Women's Ark, Novel, Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, 1996 Reprint: Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2004, ISBN: 3-8334-1591-6 I remember seeing the valley for the first time. We had stopped on the road. There was the door, two windows in a gray wall, a narrow bridge led from the road to the house. The house was too small. The agent fumbled at the lock. When the door opened we we re hit by the light. Later, whenever visitors came in and moved on to the window even before the welcoming was over, it reminded me of how I had walked through the dusty hallway towards that light, deaf to everybody's words. (read more...) Order Information

	Like a Precious Stone, Novel, Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, 1994, ISBN: 3-3120-0193-5 By the middle of the second day, I had reached the edge of the big forest. I stopped and looked back. Never before had I seen the city from a distance. All my life I had spent within its walls, first in the uncle's house, and then in the chapter house with its small enclosed cemetery. (read more...) Order Information

	The Fool, Novel, Verlag Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, 1990 Reprint: Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 2004, ISBN: 3-8334-1590-8 Perhaps he was indeed glad to see me up there. The master did not like me coming down. "Back to your place, fool, back to your place", and I would duck under my hump and climb back to the sill. He did not want me near him. No matter how drunk he was, he always gave me wide berth. The Venetian laughed when I told him about it. (read more...) Order Information