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…
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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…
by Amir Hassan Cheheltan The honeypot for the uninformed reader is the following introduction scenario: a former torturer of the Iranian Mullah regime became an entrepreneur in the hospital business.…
by Roberto Bolaño I bought this small book while I was waiting in a pub in Lastarria, a Santiago neighborhood. A really nice bookstore is located just around the corner,…
by Eva Menasse Actually it is too late to write about the book, six month later I forgot all the stories. Stories about the mortal sins, which are not that…
by Gabriel García Márquez The title makes you want to read the book especially if its written by a Nobel laureate. I actually listened to it. The main character on…
by Wilhelm Genazino As critics say Genazino is the master of mediocrity, the title already implies the principal feature of the main character: completely average, lukewarm in anything he wants…
by Jamal Mahjoub A book I wanted to read for quite some time. Critics praised it as essential to understand islamic fundamentalism today. That is for sure exaggerated, the novel…
by T.C. Boyle A ten-hour audiobook and it drew me in from the beginning. It might also have to do with the fact that the famous German actor Ulrich Matthes…