by Josh Bazell This thriller was highly recommended by my favourite literature show. Additionally, when I visited Munich this month it was heavily promoted by the book-store chain Hugendubel. It…
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by Wolfgang Hilbig I did not even know that this write exists until I bought that series published by the German newspaper “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. And that is exactly the best…
by Arnaldo Jabor I bought this book for two reasons: first I wanted to explore more contemporary Brazilian literature; second I like Jabor’s movie “Eu sei que vou te amar”,…
by Peter Ustinov Germans adore Ustinov. I am no exception. I think it is less due to his movie career, which is of course exceptional. I guess it is more…
by Richard Stark “Ask the Parrot” is the original title. But what if this parrot doesn’t speak? parker wouldn’t lose his temper even if the parrot could not answer his…
by Philip Roth “Arise, ye who refuse to be bondslaves! / . . . Indignation fills the hearts of all of our countrymen, / Arise! Arise! Arise!” That is what…
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 J.R. Moehringer A novel about the bar as location and home, and how important it can be in one’s life. That is the marketing tagline. I read it for…
by György Dragomán It is a book about the last three years of the Ceausescu-regime in Romania. Probably the most bizarre of the Eastern-European communist dictatorships at that time. It…
by Ingeborg Bachmann I read unbelievable beautiful sentences in this book. Some hurt you almost physically. But it was also difficult to read. You never know what is real, dream,…