Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Takis Würger is a reporter for the German news magazine Der Spiegel. Named one of Medium's 'Top 30 Journalists under 30,' his first novel, The Club, won the lit.Cologne debut prize in Germany. Liesl Schillinger is a literary critic, writer and translator, and teaches journalism and criticism in New York City. In 2017 she was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters of France[T]old in sparse, tight prose. It's an unsettling, atmospheric read.
- Antonia Senior, The Times
An elegant novel...Liesl Schillinger's thoughtful translation from the German original of 2019 perfectly conveys the sense of menace that hangs over it
- Caroline Moorehead, TLS
Takis Würger is someone out of the ordinary and this book is like him: powerful, strong, painful. Stella is a book from which we do not emerge unscathed and in which he explores the depths of the human soul. I stayed in this book for a long time after turning the final page. Würger is surely one of the most important writers of our generation.
- Joël Dicker, author of THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HARRY QUEBERT AFFAIR,
I was somewhat skeptical when I began this book, but it gripped and surprised me, and by the end I was full of admiration.
- Daniel Kehlmann, International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of TYLL,
Würger skillfully intertwines fact and fiction. This subtle, thought-provoking narrative is worth a look
Publishers Weekly
[A] powerful, visceral portrait of individuals caught up in a pivotal year during Nazi rule.
Booklist
Stella is a book you can hardly put down . . . It has a style which in a certain way echoes Hemingway's war reporting - you might call it "melancholy heroism." But it reads very well, you can't say otherwise.
Die Welt (Germany)