by Julia Franck KLAPPENTEXT: Das Notaufnahmelager Berlin-Marienfelde Ende der siebziger Jahre – Nadelöhr zwischen den beiden deutschen Staaten und zwischen den Blöcken des Kalten Krieges. Die Lebenswege von vier Menschen…
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by Juli Zeh KLAPPENTEXT »Wir haben nicht alles gehört, dafür das meiste gesehen, denn immer war einer von uns dabei. Ein Kommissar, der tödliches Kopfweh hat, eine physikalische Theorie liebt…
by Alina Bronsky Much has been written about this book in Germany, what can be summarized as follows: despite of the simple style of writing it draws the reader in.…
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…
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…