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…
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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…
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…