by Hellmuth Karasek Actually, Karasek is not the man I would be interested in. a typical intellectual softie I would have said. He is a softie, but how interesting is…
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by Tom Robbins A bourne-again monkey, a stock market crash, the weather of Seattle, an university in Timbuktu, a Philippine broker, the disappearance of the frogs, a Japanese who invented…
by Jewgeni Jewtuschenko The book is announced as the key novel about the Russian society in the nineties. It is more than that! In reality he describes the entire life…
by Jorge Volpi German Physicists in the first half of the 20th century. This novel is for me all about this exiting story of science. How often can it happen…
by Tom Robbins Tom Robbins is my favourite American writer – so funny, so thoughtful, so anarchic.There is no way to summarise his books. I will just give you a…
by Gesualdo Bufalino It is just a surprise. I did not know the author before but during one of my recurrent book shopping tours I took it. Reading this Italian…
by Michael Ondaatje Maybe this is heresy but I found the movie much better. It is worth reading due to the perfection of Ondaatje’s writing but interestingly enough the romance…
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…
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…