by Hernán Rivera Letelier Reading it I saw all the time an extremely funny movie in my head. I am am convinced that it will be adapted very soon. There…
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by Claudia Lage I read it more than anything else as a history book. Eufrásia Leite was a rich Brazilian woman, who lived most of her life in France. What…
by Harry Mulisch The troubled European history of the 20th century is the big topic fro the Dutch writer with the German name. His own life and that of a…
by Ferdinand von Schirach This is a summary, which I am writing almost year after I listened to it. So it is not very authentic, normally I just jot down…
by Tom Holland A history book – and entertaining from the first to the last page. Written by a historian but by no means dry. It is almost written like…
by Don DeLillo A noel which take 9/11 as background. The best artistic approximation to those events I have read so far. The secret is maybe that the book is…
by Alek Popov Naughty – naughty – naughty stories. One reviewer said: Monty Python in Bulgarian style. I can only agree. Maybe it is even darker, at least equally absurd.…
by Daniel Kehlmann Fame – the title of he book – is all too familiar to Daniel Kehlmann, who gained world fame with his previous novel “Die Vermessung der Welt”…
by Anthony Burgess Everybody knows Kubrick’s movie. In fact the movie helped Burgess to become famous. As many, first I watched the movie. Normally it is the other way around:…
by Gabriel García Márquez If you want to know everything the mechanisms of a dictatorship in the flavor of an old-fashioned despotism, you will find an all-encompassing picture in this…