by Laura Restrepo I had this book for a quiet some time under my pillow. Now I do know why I did not advance despite have having a great book…
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by Antje Rávik Strubel An unusual novel. Well-crafted. Intertwining themes like environmentalist movements, NGOs, the Stasi (East German secret service), love and incest. It seems too much but it is…
by Leo Perutz What a surprise! I had never heard about Leo Perutz before, but this novel series of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” is truly educational, I learned that Leo Perutz…
by Yu Hua I found it monumental, it resumes the Chinese history since the Cultural Revolution until modern China. It is exemplified by two brothers, which are actually not real…
by Javier Cercas One of these books Hernán recommended me. I am not sure why it took me so long to read considering that he always recommended books I adored…
by Dan Ariely I liked Ariely’s second book “The Upside of Irrationality”. His first one has the same basic topic: human behavior as we don’t expect us to behave. The…
by Yann Martel Having to cross the Adriatic Sea by ferry and going by train from Bari to Rome I needed to buy more literature. Between all the usual beach…
by Peter Buwalda I read it on my vacation in Croatia, the spectacular Dalmation coast had a true contender of my attention. A family novel on my honeymoon travel, one…
by Saul Bellow It is widely considerer as a classic of American literature. I read it because it was translated again recently into a more modern German. Here is a…
by Christoph Ransmayr The novel tells the story of the Austro-Hungarian Payer-Weyprecht expedition from 1872 to 1874, during which the northernmost part of Eurasia, the Franz Josef Land, was discovered.…