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…
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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…
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.…
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…