by Nuruddin Farah I picked this book just out of curiosity. Nuruddin Farah is Somali. There is not much African literature you can read, at least I did not come…
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by Jorge Amado It is one of the milestones of Brazilian literature. Everybody in Brazil knows this girl Gabriela, even the illiterate. The book was adapted for television as a…
by Orhan Pamuk The Muslim world has such a rich story telling tradition. and we in the Western world know so little about it. Only lately that Turkish writers gain…
by Sven Regener I am not sure, but I think this book makes only sense to those, who know Germany and its subculture. For those it is hilariously funny. At…
by Louis Begley it is a holocaust survivor story. But it is not just another one. As the title suggests it is a about lies and the personal drama connected…
by Anne Zielke A highly acclaimed novella in Germany. And rightly so. Two German seminarists, which are friends, travel with a small boat on the Amazon. The heat, the suffocating…
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…
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…