by Carsten Peter Thiede In reality I thought it was a novel when I bought it. It is not. It is the double biography of Jesus and Tiberius examining their…
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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 Julian Barnes This History of the World in 10½ Chapters (the original title) is actually a story collection, every story somehow connected to each other. Noah’s ark and the…
by Graham Greene I did not know that Greene wrote this novella just for the movie. He wanted to evoke the background of the real play so that everybody could…
by Cees Nooteboom The Dutch Nooteboom is one of the few true Europeans, not only a citizen of an European country. I think with All Souls Day he wrote the…
by Joseph Conrad Actually I started to read it because I found Conrad’s biography interesting. Born in the Ukraine as Józef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski, he spent around 20 years…