by Roald Dahl Uncle Oswald is a great story teller. Uncle Oswald is a big liar and Casanova was an amateur compared to him – would say his enemies. Since…
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by Alan Weizman Humankind disappears overnight. What will happen with the earth? How long will our artefacts last? Will it be an earth like the one before the ape with…
by Alessandro Baricco The subtitle is: The fairy-tale about the nature of the sea. And that’s what it is: a very poetic book about the sea. The sea is the…
by John Perkins An economic hit man is a man who influences decision makers of foreign countries – preferably poor one with rich natural resources – to accept loans from…
by João Ubaldo Ribeiro Another Brazilian book! Bit I read it in the German translation. I am sure wouldn’t have understood it in the original version. Too many regional expressions…
by Machado de Assis The stubborn, this would be the literal translation of the title. But the first paragraph in the book clarifies that the dictionary meaning is not the…
by Edward M. Forster Another great discovery of English literature! The plot seems boring for our modern standards. But how Forster develops his characters, the intrigues between them is just…
by Edgar Hilsenrath Only a Jew can write a satire about the holocaust, at least in Germany. Moreover, it is written from the perspective of a Nazi and mass murderer…
by Franz Kafka Kafka’s linguistic style is unmatched, at least fro me. This fragmentary book is really strange for the contemporary reader. America is still in its infancy but at…
by Nadine Gordimer I still trust in the Nobel committee in Sweden. Therefore I always wanted to read nadine Gordimer. This year I saw also a discussion with her on…