by Gary Shteyngart Gary Steyngart was recommended various times on the radio book show “Büchermarkt” (Deutschlandradio). His biography and the style of humor caused my interest/ Since “Little Failure” (the…
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by Julia Franck Here is a review and summary from the blog Dialog International:“Stettin, 1945. In a bombed-out apartment, an eight-year old boy secretly watches as his mother is repeatedly…
by Jonas Jonasson I had some great laughs listening to the audiobook version. But I could imagine it is not for everybody since it is completely over the top. The…
by Michael Köhlmeier A book about Joel Spazierer, a man without moral. He is a barbarian, later blackmailer, counterfeiter, thief, cold-blooded, vindictive, greedy. Even a five-times murderer but you are…
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…
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…