Sport in Germany has been a regular competitor in Olympic Curling since the sport was reintroduced at the 1998 Winter Olympics. The German men's and women's teams both won World Curling Championships in 1992 and 1994. A related sport, known as Eisstockschiessen or ice stock sport, is played in southern Germany. While a minor sport in the country, Germany national bandy team has qualified for Division A of the 2017 Bandy World Championship. In terms of licensed athletes, bandy is the second biggest winter sport in the world. The two most successful German tennis players of all time are Steffi Graf and Boris
A City in Winter a comet.”" It is not until this final act that the 10-year-old girl is able to open the doors of the palace to find the city bowing before her. "A City in Winter" won the World Fantasy Award for Best Novella in 1997. A City in Winter A City in Winter is a novel by American writer Mark Helprin, first published in 1996. Considered a children's novel, it is mixture of war novel and a satire of bureaucracy, telling the story of a 10-year-old queen's quest to regain her throne. All three books in this trilogy, "Swan Lake", "A City