by Patrick Süsskind It is a best-seller. It is a long-seller. it is exceptional. Most exceptional books do not fulfil the first condition. This book you can find on every…
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by Daniel Pennac Read Daniel Pennac! read his Malaussène novels! Read all of them! In serious, I can not imagine that anybody would not like it. This is a relatively…
by Tom Robbins A bourne-again monkey, a stock market crash, the weather of Seattle, an university in Timbuktu, a Philippine broker, the disappearance of the frogs, a Japanese who invented…
by Georges Simenon I am not a big fan of detective novels. Simenon is famous for his novels with detective Maigret as main character. To raise my reservation even further:…
by Daniel Kehlmann Kehlmann is a newcomer in Germany: one of the promising new generation of writers. He is intelligent, funny and writes sharp dialogues. In order to fictionalise the…
by Mario Vargas Llosa At least once a year I have to read a book in Spanish. This one was a good choice. By coincidence again about a dictatorship. Actually,…
by Jewgeni Jewtuschenko The book is announced as the key novel about the Russian society in the nineties. It is more than that! In reality he describes the entire life…
by Haruki Murakami A fascinating novel! But why? I do not know. The German translation was very often rather lame but nevertheless, I couldn’t stop to read. The story must…
by Jorge Volpi German Physicists in the first half of the 20th century. This novel is for me all about this exiting story of science. How often can it happen…
by Tom Robbins Tom Robbins is my favourite American writer – so funny, so thoughtful, so anarchic.There is no way to summarise his books. I will just give you a…