by Monika Maron Monika Maron leaves you with very ambiguous feelings. The first person narrator tells us twice that she would feel better if her male counterpart would die. First…
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by Arno Schmidt if you expect an absorbing tale, just do not read it. It is a simple story in the after-war Germany. But Arno Schmidt’s mastering of the German…
by Robert Sutton A very catchy title indeed. It persuaded me as well. The author even dedicates a long section in the epilogue to that fact. He just labels people…
by Bernardo Carvalho Bernardo Carvalho is in the circle of the most important contemporary writers in Brazil. A friend gave it to me as a birthday gift and I usually…
by John Briggs and F. David Peat It was written in 1989. I bought it in 1993. I started to read it several times, and never passed page 54. In…
by Carlo Levi Matera – Grassano – Aliano. These are the places of the author’s banishment during Mussolini’s reign before the II. World War. And these are the place of…
by Ronaldo Correia de Brito The book is advertised as a novel about a landscape – the arid Sertão in north-eastern Brazil and its tough inhabitants. For it is more…
by Amitav Ghosh I am fascinated with India. I always was. The reviews of Ghosh’s book promised a look into India’s history with the English occupation. Everybody knows that India…
by Albert Camus Again two words for a Camus novel: brilliantly written. I admit I wasn’t that caught by the story – except for the first part when the rats…
by Terézia Mora This is actually a book I read as an alternative since I couldn’t get her latest novel I was really interested in. Terézia Mora is from Hungary…