by Bastian Sick The author has famous column in the magazine “Der Spiegel”. It delas with the German language and its everyday use and abuse in a very ironic manner.…
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by Siegfried Lenz A complex intimate play, written by one of the most original voices of post-war Germany. That is how you can characterise the novella “The Lightship” and its…
by Ian McEwan I had to laugh out loud very often whilst I listened to this audiobook. – Before I listened it I had heard a couple of reviews on…
by Gabriel Garcia Márquez “Crónica de una muerte anunciada” was my first book I ever bought in Spanish – back in 1994. I think I read 3 pages -actually I…
by Keith Richards Not great literature. But hilariously funny at times and a must for any rock fan. Richards is truly not that conceited, and this makes his story believable.…
by Frank Schätzing Everybody knows the Cologne cathedral, right? Using the construction phase of this icon as a backdrop of a crime story, in which the architect is murdered, is…
by Richard David Precht For several weeks it was in the bestseller list in Germany. Unbelievable but true: a philosophical work achieved his. I am still surprised. The young author…
by Ferdinand von Schirach This is a summary, which I am writing almost year after I listened to it. So it is not very authentic, normally I just jot down…
by Don DeLillo A noel which take 9/11 as background. The best artistic approximation to those events I have read so far. The secret is maybe that the book is…
by Walter Kempowski “From Great Times” – that is the ambiguous title of the book. The great times are always in the past when you are getting older. But these…