by Julio Villanueva Chang Julio Villanueva Chang is a Peruvian journalist. The book is a collection of chronicles or essays on people the author is interested in. It is a…
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by Philip Roth Since I forgot that I had read the book here a copy from amazon, retrieved Nov 17th 2013: “With the lover everyday life recedes,” Roth writes—and exhibiting…
by Rafael Chirbes The short summary: a book about the immobility bubble in Spain. But not about the political mechanisms behind it, it is more what effect had the attached…
by Salman Rushdie Even if Rushdie doesn’t want to call that fictitious land Pakistan – the similarities are too obvious. Moreover, the two main antagonists of the novel – Iskander…
by William Lithgow Written in the first half of the 17th century it is refreshingly incompatible with today’s political correctness. You will laugh a lot about Lithgow’s rigorous, sometimes misinformed…
by Edward Abbey I needed to read a book about the South-West of the United States since I have spent so much time in Tucson on various business trips. Lately…
by Nicholas Nassim Taleb My relation with the book is ambiguous: on one hand I love it since it describes very eloquently so many things in believe in, on the…
by Monika Maron Monika Maron leaves you with very ambiguous feelings. The first person narrator tells us twice that she would feel better if her male counterpart would die. First…
by Robert Sutton A very catchy title indeed. It persuaded me as well. The author even dedicates a long section in the epilogue to that fact. He just labels people…
by Rodolfo Walsh One more of those books that came to me attention by the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2010 when Argentina was the featured country. In all the reviews…