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Wolfgang Koeppen's (1906-1996) The Hothouse was named one of the Los Angeles Times Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Notable Book. Michael Hofmann is a poet and frequent contributor to "The New York Times Book Review", and is widely regarded as one of the world's foremost translators of works from German to English. He lives in London.It is hard to think of a German writer of his generation who has written more sensitively or more profoundly about the Holocaust and its effects than Wolfgang Koeppen. -- Ruth Franklin, New Republic This dazzlingly oblique late work explains and elaborates one man's personal odyssey and also that of a society inching towards atrocity. -- Eileen Battersby The Irish Times The whorl of [Wolfgang] Koeppen's fragments is always steeled by his precision and capacity for revelation, and each word in [Michael] Hofmann's translation feels fixed in place as though it were a mortared brick. This final work from this German master is a brackish jewel. -- Scott Esposito Times Literary Supplement