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…
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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…
by Milton Hatoum I had heard radio feature about him and I liked the topic of the novel. Since I am living in Brazil it was even more interesting to…
by Thomas L. Friedman Such a famous book, I cannot add anything to what has been said already.His enumeration of factors which led to globalization (the flat world) make it…
by Jared Diamond I think it is fair to say that “The Third Chimpanzee” is the father of all following books of Jared Diamond. All his core concepts are already…
by Günther Grass I had this book forever on my bookshelf. Finally I read it. But in my opinion too late since the story is very much anchored in certain…
by Luigi Malerba Luigi Malerba is considered as one of the important contemporary writes in Italy. He just died and therefore I heard a radio feature about him. That feature…
by Nicholas Shakespeare Did you read “In Patagonia” by Bruce Chatwin? If you liked it “In Tasmania” is the right book for you. The similarities and relations on the topic…
by Julio Cortázar Cortázar’s first collection of short stories and maybe the most famous one. The title “The Bestiary” is well chosen since in each story animals play a role…
by Tomás Eloy Martínez I just wanted to read a book in Spanish. The acclaimed author of “Santa Evita” seemed to be a good choice to me. Indeed, it was.…