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…
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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,…
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…
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…