by Edward M. Forster Another great discovery of English literature! The plot seems boring for our modern standards. But how Forster develops his characters, the intrigues between them is just…
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by Rubem Fonseca Fonseca’s short stories are the essence of his work. You cannot read something more: laconic, brutal, funny, Brazilian, surprising, horrific, promising and hilarious than these stories. Each…
by Pascal Mercier A philosopher – Pascal Mercier – writes a book, how awful! No, how awesome in this case. I expected some esoteric book for women in their midlife-crisis.…
by William Somerset Maugham The perfect novel. I did not know him before but I have to read more of his work. Summarising, it is a novel about love, dependency…
by Philip Roth The acclaimed novel abut getting old and about sickness. Inevitable but mostly denied. The is nothing nice when you reach the age which one thought would never…
by Patrick Süsskind It is a best-seller. It is a long-seller. it is exceptional. Most exceptional books do not fulfil the first condition. This book you can find on every…
by Mario Vargas Llosa At least once a year I have to read a book in Spanish. This one was a good choice. By coincidence again about a dictatorship. Actually,…
by Marlen Haushofer You won’t believe how exiting it is to read 300 pages about a woman who is all of a sudden separated from society by an invisible wall.…
by Péter Esterházy Esterházy discovers that his beloved father was agent for the secret service in Communist Hungary. Two days after the release of his appraised book Celestial Harmonies where…
by João Ubaldo Ribeiro Do you want to understand Brazil? Read this book! Do you want to know why the north-east is so rich in culture? Do you want to…