by Josh Bazell This thriller was highly recommended by my favourite literature show. Additionally, when I visited Munich this month it was heavily promoted by the book-store chain Hugendubel. It…
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by Per Olov Enquist This is one of these books you would never read without recommendation. My recommendation was the series “Great Novels of the 20th Century” published by the…
by Truman Capote Of course, everybody knows at least the title of this book, or even saw the movie with Cathrine Hephburn. I read the book first, now… as a…
by Siri Hustvedt A shrink from New York discovers his own abysses. The shrink is Erik Davidson and he tells us the story of his family. After his father died,…
by Wolfgang Hilbig I did not even know that this write exists until I bought that series published by the German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. And that is exactly the best…
by Oliver Polak Oliver Polak is a comedian of jewish descent. He grew up in the German province, where he, his mother, and his father were the only jews in…
by Arnaldo Jabor I bought this book for two reasons: first I wanted to explore more contemporary Brazilian literature; second I like Jabor’s movie “Eu sei que vou te amar”,…
by Richard Stark “Ask the Parrot” is the original title. But what if this parrot doesn’t speak? parker wouldn’t lose his temper even if the parrot could not answer his…
by Uwe Tellkamp A German critic wrote: “… if somebody wants to know how the last 10 years in the German Democratic Republic (the socialist part) were, give him this…
by Knut Hamsun One of the most astonishing travels into the inner-self. The basic setting is a man who experiences repetitive phases of existential hunger and at teh same time…