The Selected Stories of Siegfried Lenz

Siegfried Lenz is one of Germany's foremost writers, ranking in popularity as well as critical esteem with GÜnter Grass and Heinrich BÖll. In the United States, his stature is based on his novel The German Lesson, but he is also considered one of the best short story writers of the postwar generation. These twenty-six stories make up the first comprehensive collection of his short works to appear in English.

"[H]is stories always encompass a world that is brilliantly filtered through his prodigious intellect and deceptively simple style." --Booklist

"The Selected Stories of Siegfried Lenz, edited and ably translated by Breon Mitchell, offers an ambitious panorama of his slowly changing narratives." --Peter Demetz, New York Times Book Review