by Ronaldo Correia de Brito The book is advertised as a novel about a landscape – the arid Sertão in north-eastern Brazil and its tough inhabitants. For it is more…
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by Ariel Magnus Argentina was the feature country on Frankfurt’s book fair in 2010. They had a strong and interesting presence there, unlike other former feature countries. One of the…
by Claudia Lage I read it more than anything else as a history book. Eufrásia Leite was a rich Brazilian woman, who lived most of her life in France. What…
by Don DeLillo A noel which take 9/11 as background. The best artistic approximation to those events I have read so far. The secret is maybe that the book is…
by Gabriel García Márquez If you want to know everything the mechanisms of a dictatorship in the flavor of an old-fashioned despotism, you will find an all-encompassing picture in this…
by Sibylle Lewitscharoff Sibylle Lewitscharoff is a German writer of Bulgarian descent. In this book she tramples on every aspect of Bulgarian pride. She and her sister accompanied the transfer…
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…
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…