by Jörg Juretzka Andreas Ammer recommended Jörg Juretzka in the famous Krimikolumne on Deutschlandradio. The first time I heard of him, and it was this book in the series of…
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by Marlene Streeruwitz The book doesn’t flollow any of teh rules to build a good story. It is just an account of a couple of month in the life of…
by María Olivia Mönckeberg In this book I understood much better the current players in the Chilean economy and how they got the wealth, they claim had gotten by hard…
by Nadine Gordimer It took me a while to get through the novel, but in hindsight it is an existing and complex novel. I seems more entertaining after reading it,…
by Ferdinand von Schirach My nice Linda was in Santiago at the time and she is a lover of these true crime books. So I read them as well and…
by Ferdinand von Schirach It is a collection of essays for the German news magazine ¨Der Spiegel”. He writes about his nazi grandfather Baldaur von Schierach, about the anachronism of…
by Michail Schischkin Here a review and summary from goodreads.com by J.T.:“This is an important book with pretensions to greatness. It tackles Russian history from before the 1917 Revolution almost…
by John Hawkes I read this avant-garde novel in English, for sure a mistake since I couldn’t enjoy it. Too many words I didn’t understand. John Hawkes is highly regarded…
by Roberto Bolaño Here is a summary from goodreads.com: “ … On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on…
by Peter Scholl-Latour Unfortunately this will be Scholl-Latour’s last book since he died in August 2014. The only man who actually understood the orient, and gave his opinion without the…