by T. Coraghessan Boyle T.C. Boyle is one of my favorite American writers. Brilliant style and in this case he captured perfectly a very present problem for the rich countries…
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by Santiago Roncalgiolo The dirty war against terrorism in Perú is the background and topic of the thriller. The author himself calls it thriller and so do all the book…
by Rubem Fonseca Again a Rubem Fonseca book – my favorite writer from Brazil. Beside of being a very entertaining book – disguised as thriller, I have to praise the…
by Bohumil Hrabal “… for him (the writer), everybody was a good man, who frequents pubs. ..” That is my favorite quote and a good summary of Hrabal’s life, who…
by Ivo Andric I often read books because I am interested in historical topics. But I pick novels since it is much more fun to read them and I know…
by Nuruddin Farah I picked this book just out of curiosity. Nuruddin Farah is Somali. There is not much African literature you can read, at least I did not come…
by Orhan Pamuk The Muslim world has such a rich story telling tradition. and we in the Western world know so little about it. Only lately that Turkish writers gain…
by Louis Begley it is a holocaust survivor story. But it is not just another one. As the title suggests it is a about lies and the personal drama connected…
by Anne Zielke A highly acclaimed novella in Germany. And rightly so. Two German seminarists, which are friends, travel with a small boat on the Amazon. The heat, the suffocating…
by Clarice Lispector A very short novel, around 90 pages – but you cannot stop to turn these pages until you finished it. A synopsis is almost impossible and would…