A Very German Christmas - The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time

A continuation of the very popular Very Christmas series conveying a festive spirit from the place where many Christmas traditions were invented. A delightful and unpredictable collection redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps. 

Summary

The fifth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll find classic works by the Brothers Grimm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Roth, and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Böll, Peter Stamm, and Martin Suter. Eine fröhliche Weihnachten—A Merry Christmas—made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.
Joseph Roth’s story “Christmas in Cochinchina,” published in English for the first time in this collection, appeared in the December 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine.

Foreword

Giveaways on Goodreads, promotion on social media, simultaneous publication ebook and hardcover. Harper's Magazine has published the Joseph Roth story “Christmas in Cochinchina,” which appears in English for the first time in A VERY GERMAN CHRISTMAS, in its December 2020 issue.

Additional text

"Excellent ... wonderfully eclectic, both powerful and strange."
—The Drunken Odyssey
—Excerpted in Harper’s Magazine—

Product details

• Authors: Heinrich Heine, Hermann Hesse, Erich Kästner, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph Roth, Arthur Schnitzler, Martin Suter, Various, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.09.2020
• EAN: 9781939931887
• ISBN: 978-1-939931-88-7
• No. of pages: 140
• Illustrations: Brief illustrations appear before each story.
• Series: Very Christmas; A Very Christmas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors), TRAVEL / Europe / Germany