Dog Years
by Gunter Grass | 
The Silent Angel
by Heinrich Boll | 
Mephisto
by Klaus Mann | 
Group Portrait with Lady
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Seventh Cross
by Anna Seghers | 
Arch of Triumph
by Erich Maria Remarque | 
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Sleepwalkers
by Hermann Broch | 
Cat and Mouse
by Gunter Grass | 
The Clown
by Heinrich Boll | 
The Holy Sinner
by Thomas Mann | 
The Flounder
by Gunter Grass | 
Joseph and His Brothers
by Thomas Mann | 
Child of All Nations
by Irmgard Keun |
The Drinker
by Hans Fallada | 
Vertigo
by W. G. Sebald | 
The Oppermanns
by Lion Feuchtwanger | 
The Lime Works
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Yes
by Thomas Bernhard | 
Man in the Holocene
by Max Frisch |
Not since The Reader has a work of fiction so stunningly evoked the guilt and shame that resounds in postwar Germany. In this debut novel of astonishing originality, we bear witness to a family ravaged with regret at the loss of their child. As a young boy, the narrator learns that his parents lost their firstborn son while fleeing the advancing Russian Army in 1945. Though his family has comfortably settled in Westphalen, the memory of Arnold continues to haunt them. The narrator shares his parents' anguish, but he can't resist feeling resentful, for his brother's absence is the most defining aspect of his life. When his parents learn of a foundling that resembles Arnold, they embark on a horrific quest to claim him as their own, only to endure a series of unanticipated twists that lead to a startling denouement. At turns uncanny, subtle, and perversely amusing, Lost is a chilling novel of mesmerizing power. From the Trade Paperback edition.