by Herta Müller It is actually not a book. Herta Müller is readily telling us her life in Romania under Ceaucescu – the communist, bizarre dictator. Her childhood on the…
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by Wilhelm Genazino As critics say Genazino is the master of mediocrity, the title already implies the principal feature of the main character: completely average, lukewarm in anything he wants…
by T.C. Boyle A ten-hour audiobook and it drew me in from the beginning. It might also have to do with the fact that the famous German actor Ulrich Matthes…
by Wassili Grossman I listened it in a short version, adapted by a German radio station – the NDR. It is a work of gigantic proportion it deals with totalitarianism,…
by John Le Carre Instead of my own thoughts here is the plot summary from wikipedia, retrieved on Nov 17th 2013:The book tells the story of Ted Mundy, a Pakistani-born…
by Christoffel von Grimmelshausen Most Germans know this book because it is mentioned in the history classes for its depiction of the atrocities during the Thirty Years War in Germany…
by Nicholas Nassim Taleb My relation with the book is ambiguous: on one hand I love it since it describes very eloquently so many things in believe in, on the…
by Rodolfo Walsh One more of those books that came to me attention by the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2010 when Argentina was the featured country. In all the reviews…
by Wladimir Sorokin Russian literature is great. And there is a certain Russian tradition of writing.. tradition is not bad but easily turns into an unshakable expectation on the reader’s…
by Walter Kempowski The big treks of German refugees after II World War fleeing the progressing Red Army to the homeland. That is the topic of “All in Vain” (the…