num_pages: 324
description: 'A Runaway Horse' by Martin Walser revolves around two friends, long separated, who meet on vacation. One is an idle teacher; the other an optimistic go-getter. The teacher discovers that one cannot avoid dealing head-on with life any better than one can reason with a runaway horse.Peter Schneider's 'Lenz', which takes its title from the melancholy novella by Georg Buchner, is about the life of a young intellectual in 1960s East Germany. This is its first publication in English.'The Sunday I Became World Champion', by Friedrich Christian Delius, portrays a postwar German village through the eyes of a preacher's son, a boy whose stutter is helped by the success of the national soccer team.Series: German Library, v. 88.
language: English
title: Three Contemporary German Novellas: Lenz, A Runaway Horse, The Sunday I Became World Champion
titlecomplete: Three Contemporary German Novellas: Lenz, A Runaway Horse, The Sunday I Became World Champion
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Continuum