by Bernardo Carvalho Bernardo Carvalho is in the circle of the most important contemporary writers in Brazil. A friend gave it to me as a birthday gift and I usually…
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by John Briggs and F. David Peat It was written in 1989. I bought it in 1993. I started to read it several times, and never passed page 54. In…
by Bastian Sick The author has famous column in the magazine “Der Spiegel”. It delas with the German language and its everyday use and abuse in a very ironic manner.…
by Carlo Levi Matera – Grassano – Aliano. These are the places of the author’s banishment during Mussolini’s reign before the II. World War. And these are the place of…
by Ronaldo Correia de Brito The book is advertised as a novel about a landscape – the arid Sertão in north-eastern Brazil and its tough inhabitants. For it is more…
by Siegfried Lenz A complex intimate play, written by one of the most original voices of post-war Germany. That is how you can characterise the novella “The Lightship” and its…
by Ian McEwan I had to laugh out loud very often whilst I listened to this audiobook. – Before I listened it I had heard a couple of reviews on…
by Amitav Ghosh I am fascinated with India. I always was. The reviews of Ghosh’s book promised a look into India’s history with the English occupation. Everybody knows that India…
by Albert Camus Again two words for a Camus novel: brilliantly written. I admit I wasn’t that caught by the story – except for the first part when the rats…
by Terézia Mora This is actually a book I read as an alternative since I couldn’t get her latest novel I was really interested in. Terézia Mora is from Hungary…