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:”……
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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…
by Roberto Bolaño Here is a summary from goodreads.com: “ … On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on…
by Lutz Seiler Here a Google translated summary from the German wikipedia article:“ .. The novel Kruso of Lutz Seiler plays on the island of Hiddensee in the milieu of…
by Ismael Kadare I read this book since I got interested in Kadare from Albania, who was considered a strong candidate fro the Nobel Prize. The story is captivating and…