If you want to read another book to improve your German vocabulary, but are curious about this, I discovered it has been translated into English. The title has been changed to Thumbprint and the translator's name is Mike Mitchell. The ISBN number is 1-904738-00-1 .
Just bought the whole book by Kindle. Hopefully, the English translation by Mike Mitchell does the book justice. ISBN: 1904738001 ASIN: B002H9XTQO
One thing I did with another language: rather than too easy book, I bought a novel I was interested in in two languages and read the pages in paralell. That helpt enormously to get from a medium level to a more idiomatic grammar and richer vocabulary. The novel gives a complete context and with the translation, one is certain to get the meaning right.
Something must be also available in bilingual edition German/English, I can imagine...?
I've found a few parallel text readers including one from Penguin - the ones I have are not really suited to beginners but are a good introduction to German authors and post war German literature for someone with good intermediate German.
You're right... no suited for beginners or lower intermediate, it is for perfectioning.
I read German novels (originally translated from English) especially the Sidney Sheldon, Danielle Steel and John Grisham, the stories and suspense keeps you going and you get a lot of vocabularies. You can also get a variety in Brockenhaus and cheaply for less than 3.00 CHF.
Hey so I bought this book It is a beginners german book with cd so I can read along with the cd for the correct pronunciation. Hopefully it will be good. It also has some little tests after some chapters to help you recap
Some nice books for learning:
Darth Vader - Aufstieg und Fall (simple sentences also for youth )
eiS (story about a female-dominated world )
Homo Faber (a simple narrative )
Max & Moritz (also very simple, for kids )