by Haruki Murakami The first book of Murakami I read (South of the Border, West of the Sun) caused such a hunger for more. And this book did not disappoint…
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by Alan Weizman Humankind disappears overnight. What will happen with the earth? How long will our artefacts last? Will it be an earth like the one before the ape with…
by Machado de Assis The stubborn, this would be the literal translation of the title. But the first paragraph in the book clarifies that the dictionary meaning is not the…
by Edgar Hilsenrath Only a Jew can write a satire about the holocaust, at least in Germany. Moreover, it is written from the perspective of a Nazi and mass murderer…
by Nadine Gordimer I still trust in the Nobel committee in Sweden. Therefore I always wanted to read nadine Gordimer. This year I saw also a discussion with her on…
by Rubem Fonseca Alternative literature! It is not like Bukowski, it is real literature, it is Rubem Fonseca from Rio de Janeiro. I discovered him via a podcast where they…
by Tom Wolfe That soft soft man with a white suit, white socks and white shoes: a dandy: Tom Wolfe. I knew this picture of him and therefore I concluded…
by Daniel Pennac Read Daniel Pennac! read his Malaussène novels! Read all of them! In serious, I can not imagine that anybody would not like it. This is a relatively…
by Georges Simenon I am not a big fan of detective novels. Simenon is famous for his novels with detective Maigret as main character. To raise my reservation even further:…
by Daniel Kehlmann Kehlmann is a newcomer in Germany: one of the promising new generation of writers. He is intelligent, funny and writes sharp dialogues. In order to fictionalise the…