by Clarice Lispector A very short novel, around 90 pages – but you cannot stop to turn these pages until you finished it. A synopsis is almost impossible and would…
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by Milton Hatoum I had heard radio feature about him and I liked the topic of the novel. Since I am living in Brazil it was even more interesting to…
by Thomas L. Friedman Such a famous book, I cannot add anything to what has been said already.His enumeration of factors which led to globalization (the flat world) make it…
by Thomas Mann A book of paramount importance of one of the most important writes of all time in the German language. …. And I have read it only at…
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb One of these books, which apparently everybody has to read. Normally I avoid them but the mathematical touch of the topic drew me into it. And…
by Luis Fernando Ver!ssimo The book is a collection of short essays on various topics. What glues them together is the relation to Brazil, Brazilian culture and Brazilian idiosyncrasy. Therefore…
by Frédéric Beigbeder The original title is “99 Francs” – the sales price of the book itself. In Germany is just costed 39,90 deutsch marks. Beigbeder is one of those…
by Jared Diamond I think it is fair to say that “The Third Chimpanzee” is the father of all following books of Jared Diamond. All his core concepts are already…
by Günther Grass I had this book forever on my bookshelf. Finally I read it. But in my opinion too late since the story is very much anchored in certain…
by Strugatski This is the novel on which the movie “Stalker” by Andrej Tarkovsky is loosely based on. The movie is my all time favorite.Actually it is good to read…