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…
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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…
by Sławomir Mrozek Almost my favorite dramatist. He is sharp and short, he is satirical and absurd, he starts conventional and ends with a surprise even in the shortest stories.…
by Martin Mosebach Until I took this book in my hands the authors was an unknown to me. Nevertheless, the fact that he had been given the Büchner Award (the…
by Rubem Fonseca As I wrote in a previous summary: I became addicted to this writer, I should really read other Brazilian literature as well! It is another book witch…
by Arundhati Roy There cannot be said anything what you cannot find somewhere in the internet. I read first her political essays, and since then I wanted to read this…