by John Irving Inhalt vom Verlag Diogenes: Homer ist anders als die anderen Kinder im Saint-Cloud´s Waisenhaus: Er will nicht weg. Nach vier gescheiterten Adoptionsversuchen erlaubt Dr. Larch ihm daher,…
Category: <span>Audiobook</span>
by Alina Bronsky Much has been written about this book in Germany, what can be summarized as follows: despite of the simple style of writing it draws the reader in.…
by Julia Franck Here is a review and summary from the blog Dialog International:“Stettin, 1945. In a bombed-out apartment, an eight-year old boy secretly watches as his mother is repeatedly…
by Jonas Jonasson I had some great laughs listening to the audiobook version. But I could imagine it is not for everybody since it is completely over the top. The…
by Gabriel García Márquez The title makes you want to read the book especially if its written by a Nobel laureate. I actually listened to it. The main character on…
by Stefan Heym This book I read years ago. Most likely in the nineties. It always impressed me, and I always had it in my mind. back then for sure…
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…
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,…