by J.R. Moehringer A novel about the bar as location and home, and how important it can be in one’s life. That is the marketing tagline. I read it for…
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by Irène Némirovsky After “Rummelplatz”, again a novel fragment. And again an unexpected discovery. Irène Nemirovsky couldn’t finish her work because she was deported t o a concentration camp in…
by Isaak Babel Since I read “Vast Emotions & Imperfect Thoughts” by Rubem Fonseca I wanted to read Isaak Babel. See my previous comments. A friend bought “The Odessa Tales”…
by György Dragomán It is a book about the last three years of the Ceausescu-regime in Romania. Probably the most bizarre of the Eastern-European communist dictatorships at that time. It…
by Werner Bräunig The setting is pretty interesting from a historical perspective. When the Americans dropped the nuclear bombs in Japan the Russians needed desperately and and very quick Uranium.…
by Andrzej Stasiuk I would like to call it poetry. It seems to be a novel but as the author puts it: it does not have an beginning nor an…
by Jaan Kroos I just love historic novels. Jaan Kroos is considered as the re-inventor of that genre. That and teh fact that I hadn’t ever read a book from…
by Milton Hatoum Two Brothers – would be the literal translation of the title Hatoum describes all he opposite of what you would expect from brothers and their relationship. It…
by Ingeborg Bachmann I read unbelievable beautiful sentences in this book. Some hurt you almost physically. But it was also difficult to read. You never know what is real, dream,…
by Mario Vargas Llosa It is a little but perfectly composed novel. Vargas-Llosa included even seven paintings – ranging from Rembrandt to Francis Bacon – as reproductions into the text.…