1 option
Hamburg noir / edited by Jan Karsten ; translated by Noah Harley, Geoffrey C. Howes, and Paul David Young.
Van Pelt Library PT1340.D4 H36 2025
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ambjørnsen, Ingvar, 1956- author.
- Beck, Zoë, 1975- author.
- Blunk, Timo, author.
- Brack, Robert, 1959- author.
- Bela B. (Bela Barney), 1962- author.
- Göhre, Frank, 1943- author.
- Helbling, Brigitte, author.
- Hensel, Kai, 1965- author.
- Luttmer, Nora, 1973- author.
- Raether, Till, 1969- author.
- Ramadan, Jasmin, 1974- author.
- Seddig, Katrin, 1969- author.
- Uebel, Tina, 1969- author.
- Wittekindt, Matthias, 1958- author.
- Series:
- Akashic noir series
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Detective and mystery stories, German--Translations into English.
- Detective and mystery stories, German.
- Short stories, German--Translations into English.
- Short stories, German.
- Marginality, Social--Germany--Hamburg--Fiction.
- Marginality, Social.
- Crime--Germany--Hamburg--Fiction.
- Crime.
- Hamburg (Germany)--Fiction.
- Hamburg (Germany).
- Genre:
- Noir fiction.
- Short stories.
- short stories.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 295 pages : map ; 21 cm
- monochrome
- map
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY : Akashic Books, [2025]
- Summary:
- "The many facets of Hamburg's ambivalent identity, forged over centuries, are on full display in the stories collected in this anthology. Here, we have assembled some of the city's finest and best-known writers, luminaries in the world of crime fiction and German literature, featuring multiple recipients of the German Crime Fiction Award and the Hubert Fichte Prize, among others. Relative newcomers rub shoulders with established authors, some of whose work now spans decades... The fourteen stories in this collection all look to where good (crime) fiction has always looked: toward lesser-known settings and living situations, repeatedly drawing our attention to lives overlooked, the lost souls and the powerless who have slipped through the cracks of commerce. The perspectives on the metropolis are as diverse as the writers' backgrounds, resulting in a varied depiction of Hamburg as a colorful hodgepodge of people inhabiting a lively city of millions. Between water and spirits, between power and oblivion, between dream and reality."-- From the introduction by Jan Karsten.
- Contents:
- Part I: Water & Schnapps. Ant Street / Nora Luttmer
- I'll be gone in a minute / Till Raether
- Way down below / Ingvar Ambjørnsen
- Under blackthorn / Matthias Wittekindt
- Part II: Dream & reality. Angel fricassee / Tome Blunck
- Who'll look after our women if we don't? / Bela B Felsenheimer
- Crazy angels / Jasmin Ramadan
- The outer facade / Frank Göhre
- The assignment / Katrin Seddit
- Reeperbahn 29 revisited / Tina Uebel
- Part III: Power & oblivion. Abreast Schwarztonnensand / Zoë Beck
- Aikido diaries / Brigitte Helbling
- The girl at the Dom / Kai Hensel
- Expropriation / Robert Brack.
- ISBN:
- 9781636141152
- 1636141153
- OCLC:
- 1397049630
- Publisher Number:
- 90103096758
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.