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Book Review, European Literature, Fiction, German Literature, Novel, Thriller, Translation

Come Sweet Death by Wolf Haas

I enjoyed the first two Simon Brenner novels, I’m sure of it.  I remember loving the way they were narrated–a third person narrator who referred to himself in the first person, making little cracks about the characters as the plot went along. They were good books. The narrator was funny. So what happened this time around. Come Sweet Death has Simon Brenner still trying to get … Continue reading Come Sweet Death by Wolf Haas

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Book Review, Fiction, German Literature, Noir, Novel, Thriller, Translation

Brenner and God by Wolf Haas, translated from the German by Annie Janusch

The most unusual thing about Wolf Haas’s detective thriller Brenner and God, a novel not shy about tackling unusual things, is the narrator. What to make of the narrator?  It’s it a first person narrator or a third person narrator? See what you think: Now, what was it that Peinhaupt was going to casually ask the suspicious chauffeur?  How well he know Knoll, of course.  But there … Continue reading Brenner and God by Wolf Haas, translated from the German by Annie Janusch

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