by Julio Villanueva Chang Julio Villanueva Chang is a Peruvian journalist. The book is a collection of chronicles or essays on people the author is interested in. It is a…
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by Philip Roth Since I forgot that I had read the book here a copy from amazon, retrieved Nov 17th 2013: “With the lover everyday life recedes,” Roth writes—and exhibiting…
by Dan and Chip Heath It is simply the best book on change management. It bases its conclusions on human behavior. The examples given in this book make you think…
by Rafael Chirbes The short summary: a book about the immobility bubble in Spain. But not about the political mechanisms behind it, it is more what effect had the attached…
by Salman Rushdie Even if Rushdie doesn’t want to call that fictitious land Pakistan – the similarities are too obvious. Moreover, the two main antagonists of the novel – Iskander…
by Christoffel von Grimmelshausen Most Germans know this book because it is mentioned in the history classes for its depiction of the atrocities during the Thirty Years War in Germany…
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez Already on the first pages I was drawn into the book – not into the story, but what the author said about life and how. The…
by Jacques Roubaud Besides the fact, that it is a disturbing story about friendship and betrayal, I found it interesting that it follows self imposed formal restrictions. Roubaud is member…
by William Lithgow Written in the first half of the 17th century it is refreshingly incompatible with today’s political correctness. You will laugh a lot about Lithgow’s rigorous, sometimes misinformed…
by David Foster Wallace I read the paperback edition in German. And I do not know if this was an “Infinite Jest”, since the book has 1600 pages, printed in…