by Carson McCullers Surprise! For at least. Reading McCullers book I realised that communist ideas were once topical in the US. At least she had a certain sympathy for these…
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by Nikos Kazantzakis I wanted to read this book for many. many years. I think it was the sirtaki dance interpretation by Anthony Quinn in the movie which made me…
by Gesualdo Bufalino It is just a surprise. I did not know the author before but during one of my recurrent book shopping tours I took it. Reading this Italian…
by Michael Ondaatje Maybe this is heresy but I found the movie much better. It is worth reading due to the perfection of Ondaatje’s writing but interestingly enough the romance…
by Marlen Haushofer You won’t believe how exiting it is to read 300 pages about a woman who is all of a sudden separated from society by an invisible wall.…
by Carsten Peter Thiede In reality I thought it was a novel when I bought it. It is not. It is the double biography of Jesus and Tiberius examining their…
by Jared Diamond Lucas recommended me this book. Actually he put it on my desk: read it! It took quit a while before I finished the task. Diamond has a…
by Peter Scholl-Latour Scholl-Latour is the Doyen of German post-war journalism. He is already over eighty years old and still travelling to Afghanistan and other hot spots of current political…
by Paulo Coehlo My first book in Portuguese! It is really not great literature. Of course, I can not judge about Coelho’s ability to write beautiful sentences but I can…
by Alberto Moravia Stories from. Rome. These short stories are not about the historical places but about the losers of the society who live in the suburbs. I read Moravia’s…