W.: A Novel

In this internationally acclaimed novel, Steve Sem-Sandberg brilliantly refracts the story of Georg Büchner’s groundbreaking play Woyzeck through a new lens.

W., the astonishing novel by August Prize–winning author Steve Sem-Sandberg, is a literary reimagining of one of modern literature’s touchstone texts, the play Woyzeck. Considered the first modern drama, Woyzeck tells the story of a loyal soldier and survivor of the Napoleonic Wars who, in a fit of jealous rage, kills the woman he love...