The Karnau Tapes

First edition in English. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 242, [1]. Quarter-bound tan cloth over mustard-coloured boards, lettered in silver to spine. Jacket design by Vaughn Andrews (priced $23.00 to front flap).

Signed by Author to title-page.

Translated by John Brownjohn. Originally published as Flughunde (1995) by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.

Author's first book. A novel about the last days of the Third Reich, as a sound engineer, Hermann Karnau, obsessively records every conceivable nuance of the human sound – from Nazi party rallies to the death rattles of fallen soldiers on the Eastern front to Hitler's bunker for the Führer's last utterances – for an archive. Recipient of the Kleist Prize (2014) and the Georg Büchner Prize (2016). "A masterpiece." –Süddeutsche Zeitung