Hermann Hesse

Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth Hermann Hesse New Tra edition

A powerful new translation of Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse?s masterpiece of youthful rebellion—with a foreword and cover art by James Franco
  A young man awakens to selfhood and to a world of possibilities beyond the conventions of his upbringing in Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse?s beloved novel Demian. Emil Sinclair is a quiet boy drawn into a forbidden yet seductive realm of petty crime and defiance. His guide is his precocious, mysterious classmate Max Demian, who provokes in Emil a search for self-discovery and spiritual fulfillment. A brilliant psychological portrait, Demian is given new life in this translation, which together with James Franco?s personal and inspiring foreword will bring a new generation to Hesse?s widely influential coming-of-age novel.