by Patrick Modiano Here is another of the good book summaries by Bernd Wunderlich in German:“Die Eltern von Louis Memling – der Vater war Radrennfahrer, die Mutter Tänzerin – kamen…
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by Marlene Streeruwitz The book doesn’t flollow any of teh rules to build a good story. It is just an account of a couple of month in the life of…
by María Olivia Mönckeberg In this book I understood much better the current players in the Chilean economy and how they got the wealth, they claim had gotten by hard…
by Javier Cercas A captivating novel which starts in the aftermath of the Franco dictatorship and reaches into the present times. Here a summary and review by the Financial Times:”……
by Nadine Gordimer It took me a while to get through the novel, but in hindsight it is an existing and complex novel. I seems more entertaining after reading it,…
by Ferdinand von Schirach It is a collection of essays for the German news magazine ¨Der Spiegel”. He writes about his nazi grandfather Baldaur von Schierach, about the anachronism of…
by Ferdinand von Schirach My nice Linda was in Santiago at the time and she is a lover of these true crime books. So I read them as well and…
by Michail Schischkin Here a review and summary from goodreads.com by J.T.:“This is an important book with pretensions to greatness. It tackles Russian history from before the 1917 Revolution almost…
by John Hawkes I read this avant-garde novel in English, for sure a mistake since I couldn’t enjoy it. Too many words I didn’t understand. John Hawkes is highly regarded…
by Martin Kluger Did I read the right book? All I remembered from the review on Deutschlandradio, which I heard a couple of years ago, was that the author lives…