by Gabriel García Márquez The title makes you want to read the book especially if its written by a Nobel laureate. I actually listened to it. The main character on…
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by Stefan Heym This book I read years ago. Most likely in the nineties. It always impressed me, and I always had it in my mind. back then for sure…
by Herta Müller It is actually not a book. Herta Müller is readily telling us her life in Romania under Ceaucescu – the communist, bizarre dictator. Her childhood on the…
by Wilhelm Genazino As critics say Genazino is the master of mediocrity, the title already implies the principal feature of the main character: completely average, lukewarm in anything he wants…
by Jamal Mahjoub A book I wanted to read for quite some time. Critics praised it as essential to understand islamic fundamentalism today. That is for sure exaggerated, the novel…
by T.C. Boyle A ten-hour audiobook and it drew me in from the beginning. It might also have to do with the fact that the famous German actor Ulrich Matthes…
by Dan Ariely I liked Ariely’s second book “The Upside of Irrationality”. His first one has the same basic topic: human behavior as we don’t expect us to behave. The…
by Beppe Severgnini … ohne verheiratet, überfahren oder verhaftet zu werden – is teh subtitle, translated into:Survive Italy … Without being married, overrun or imprisoned.That slogan is funny, but does…
by Yann Martel Having to cross the Adriatic Sea by ferry and going by train from Bari to Rome I needed to buy more literature. Between all the usual beach…
by Zoran Ferić Being in Croatia had to read something written by a Croatian writer. Good luck wanted me to find a German translation of one of the more prolific…