by Aravind Adiga Learn about the dark side of India’s raise. That is the essence of most articles about this book. They insinuate that the mainstream media only tells you…
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by Arnon Grünberg This book hurts. The protagonist Vorname is so fucked up and I would despise his way of life in the real world.. Nevertheless, you feel and suffer…
by J.R. Moehringer A novel about the bar as location and home, and how important it can be in one’s life. That is the marketing tagline. I read it for…
by Irène Némirovsky After “Rummelplatz”, again a novel fragment. And again an unexpected discovery. Irène Nemirovsky couldn’t finish her work because she was deported t o a concentration camp in…
by Isaak Babel Since I read “Vast Emotions & Imperfect Thoughts” by Rubem Fonseca I wanted to read Isaak Babel. See my previous comments. A friend bought “The Odessa Tales”…
by György Dragomán It is a book about the last three years of the Ceausescu-regime in Romania. Probably the most bizarre of the Eastern-European communist dictatorships at that time. It…
by Werner Bräunig The setting is pretty interesting from a historical perspective. When the Americans dropped the nuclear bombs in Japan the Russians needed desperately and and very quick Uranium.…
by Andrzej Stasiuk I would like to call it poetry. It seems to be a novel but as the author puts it: it does not have an beginning nor an…
by Jaan Kroos I just love historic novels. Jaan Kroos is considered as the re-inventor of that genre. That and teh fact that I hadn’t ever read a book from…
by Milton Hatoum Two Brothers – would be the literal translation of the title Hatoum describes all he opposite of what you would expect from brothers and their relationship. It…