by Dan Ariely I liked Ariely’s second book “The Upside of Irrationality”. His first one has the same basic topic: human behavior as we don’t expect us to behave. The…
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by Beppe Severgnini … ohne verheiratet, überfahren oder verhaftet zu werden – is teh subtitle, translated into:Survive Italy … Without being married, overrun or imprisoned.That slogan is funny, but does…
by Yann Martel Having to cross the Adriatic Sea by ferry and going by train from Bari to Rome I needed to buy more literature. Between all the usual beach…
by Zoran Ferić Being in Croatia had to read something written by a Croatian writer. Good luck wanted me to find a German translation of one of the more prolific…
by Peter Buwalda I read it on my vacation in Croatia, the spectacular Dalmation coast had a true contender of my attention. A family novel on my honeymoon travel, one…
by Rubem Fonseca I had to read something in Portuguese in order to preserve my vocabulary. As always, in front of my bookshelf and in doubt, what book to pick,…
by T.C. Boyle A review just copied from amazon by T.K. Kenyon (link): “… Boyle is one of the best short story writers around today. His short stories are enjoyable…
by Saul Bellow It is widely considerer as a classic of American literature. I read it because it was translated again recently into a more modern German. Here is a…
by Colette Here a copy from the online New York Times, retrieved on Nov 17th 2013:“Mitsou,” the story of a love of a little music-hall girl for a nameless lieutenant,…
by Christoph Ransmayr The novel tells the story of the Austro-Hungarian Payer-Weyprecht expedition from 1872 to 1874, during which the northernmost part of Eurasia, the Franz Josef Land, was discovered.…