by Catalin Dorian Florescu Florescu is a Romanian, who lives and writes now in Switzerland. His novels have usually a Romanian background. In this case as well. Zaira is born…
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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb I bought them as a double-pack: “Fooled by Randomness” and “The Black Swan”. The main argument of both books is one of my favorite topics to…
by Sven Regener I am not sure, but I think this book makes only sense to those, who know Germany and its subculture. For those it is hilariously funny. At…
by Nassim Nicholas Taleb One of these books, which apparently everybody has to read. Normally I avoid them but the mathematical touch of the topic drew me into it. And…
by Luis Fernando Ver!ssimo The book is a collection of short essays on various topics. What glues them together is the relation to Brazil, Brazilian culture and Brazilian idiosyncrasy. Therefore…
by Frédéric Beigbeder The original title is “99 Francs” – the sales price of the book itself. In Germany is just costed 39,90 deutsch marks. Beigbeder is one of those…
by Strugatski This is the novel on which the movie “Stalker” by Andrej Tarkovsky is loosely based on. The movie is my all time favorite.Actually it is good to read…
by Tschingis Aitmatow I had to select a book from the most famous Kyrgyz, Tschingis Aitmatov, when I hike through Kyrgyzstan – or better through the Tien-Shan mountains which are…
by Amélie Nothomb This book book is written from the point of view of a two year old girl. Herself. Back in Japan where she grew up as daughter of…
by Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa I am not sure if the books counts as trivial literature between critics. The yearly output of the author suggest it. But I have to admit that…