by Jörg Juretzka Seldom I read mystery novels designed as such and with all the typical features of the genre. But the literature podcast I listen to regularly has also…
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by Stefan Zweig After more than at least 12 years I turn again to a book of Stefan Zweig. He was one of those i devoured at some stage of…
by Edward Abbey I needed to read a book about the South-West of the United States since I have spent so much time in Tucson on various business trips. Lately…
by Nicholas Nassim Taleb My relation with the book is ambiguous: on one hand I love it since it describes very eloquently so many things in believe in, on the…
by Monika Maron Monika Maron leaves you with very ambiguous feelings. The first person narrator tells us twice that she would feel better if her male counterpart would die. First…
by Arno Schmidt if you expect an absorbing tale, just do not read it. It is a simple story in the after-war Germany. But Arno Schmidt’s mastering of the German…
by Robert Sutton A very catchy title indeed. It persuaded me as well. The author even dedicates a long section in the epilogue to that fact. He just labels people…
by Rodolfo Walsh One more of those books that came to me attention by the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2010 when Argentina was the featured country. In all the reviews…
by Wladimir Sorokin Russian literature is great. And there is a certain Russian tradition of writing.. tradition is not bad but easily turns into an unshakable expectation on the reader’s…
by Walter Kempowski The big treks of German refugees after II World War fleeing the progressing Red Army to the homeland. That is the topic of “All in Vain” (the…