Wolfgang Koeppen

Wolfgang Koeppen's (1906-1996) The Hothouse was named one of the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book.

Wolfgang Koeppen

Wolfgang Koeppen's (1906-1996) The Hothouse was named one of the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book.

Awards

Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2001

Books by Wolfgang Koeppen

  • A Sad Affair: A Novel

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    Hardback, 2003

    A romantic roman à clef that tells the story of Sibylle, one of the greatest literary femmes fatales since Salomé.
  • Death in Rome

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2001

    A prophetic novel that ranks with The Tin Drum and W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants as one of the essential works of contemporary European fiction.
  • The Hothouse: A Novel

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2002

    "A recovered masterpiece....Remarkable as a sidelong, searing appraisal of the legacy of the Nazi years."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
  • Pigeons on the Grass

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    Paperback, 2020

    Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann
  • Pigeons on the Grass

    Wolfgang Koeppen, Michael Hofmann

    E Book, 2020

    Wolfgang Koeppen’s postwar masterpiece in a luminous new translation by the poet Michael Hofmann