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Yes, currently working through the Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr. Highly recommended. Bernie is a Berlin PI who ends up in the SS. It is pretty grim in s
by cgh 6y ago
Yes, currently working through the Bernie Gunther series by Philip Kerr. Highly recommended. Bernie is a Berlin PI who ends up in the SS. It is pretty grim in spots but full of tremendous black humour as well. If you enjoy detective stories and/or historical fiction, please take a look at this series.
- xcambar 6y agoI second this recommendation. The whole series is amazing. I doubt though that Bernie would appreciate to be said to "end up in the SS" :)
- eatonphil 6y agoThis was a good read. If anyone familiar with Germany authors can comment I'd love to be reading more historical fiction by actual Germans (Kerr is English, I think). I'm familiar with Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse (and of course, Goethe), but looking for authors a little more approachable than these greats. All Quiet On The Western Front was more in this category of an approachable read. tldr; looking for recommendations from more recent German novelists translated into English because this American has a hard time finding them.
- muffinman26 6y agoHans Peter Richter wrote multiple young adult historical fiction books about the rise of Hitler, which have been translated to English and are very approachable. His most famous is Friedrich. They were written in the 80s, which isn't exactly modern but is certainly more recent than Herman Hesse. Not recent at all, but as you mentioned Goethe, the comparatively lower class playwright Friedrich Schiller was considered to be his intellectual equal and rival.
- eatonphil 6y agoThank you! I'd really like to get away from war novels, but I'll give this one a try.