A German Christmas

Classic German-language Christmas stories filled with snowy forests, Nutcrackers, family chaos and candlelit wonder. Fröhliche Weihnachten! A Merry Christmas with a literary collection that gathers festive writing from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. A German Christmas brings together classic tales by the Brothers Grimm and Thomas Mann with more recent stories by writers including Peter Stamm and Martin Suter. Helpful elves, the Nutcracker, snowy forests, city errands, old lovers, family chaos, gingerbread, stollen, roast goose and candlelit trees create a rich seasonal anthology rooted in German-language Christmas traditions. This collection is an inviting Christmas gift for readers who enjoy classic stories, European literature, folklore, festive fiction and winter reading with warmth and intelligence. From magical helpers to moments of reflection and rediscovery, A German Christmas celebrates the tales that helped shape the season. *A Daily Express Book of the Year*

Thomas Mann (Contributor) Thomas Mann (1875-1955) is regarded by many as the greatest German novelist of the 20th century. Mann's first major novel, Buddenbrooks, sold over a million copies in Germany alone, before Hitler banned and burned it. Mann fled Germany and spent the latter part of his life living in Switzerland and America. He wrote many essays as well as novels, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929. E.T.A. Hoffmann (Contributor) Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffman (1776-1822) was one of the most important writers of German Romanticism. His novella The Sandman inspired Delibes' ballet Coppelia, whilst The Nutcracker and the Mouseking became the basis of Tchaikovsky's much-loved Christmas ballet. Martin Suter (Contributor) Martin Suter is a novelist, screenwriter, and newspaper columnist born in Zurich, Switzerland. He has written a dozen novels, many of them bestsellers in Europe and translated into thirty-two languages, including The Last Weynfeldt, as well as Allmen and the Dragonflies and its sequel Allmen and the Pink Diamond. Suter lives with his family in Zurich. Peter Stamm (Contributor) Peter Stamm is the Swiss author of eleven novels, along with several short story collections, plays, and radio dramas. Several of his works have been translated into English. He has received several German language literary prizes, and was short-listed for the 2013 Man Booker International Prize for his full body of work.