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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Kundera, Milan
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Räuberhände Heinrich, Finn-Ole
[ book tip by Beat Mazenauer ] Janik’s parents are very good people: decent and fair in their actions. So it goes without saying that Janik’s friend Samuel can sleep over or even live at their house. Samuel doesn’t know his father, and his mother is an alky. Her son and his friend supply her ...
Bonjour Tristesse Sagan, Françoise
[ book tip by Hannah Geismar ] Cécile is 17 and spending the summer at the French seaside with her lovable playboy father, who has rented a big house for Cécile, himself and his young girlfriend Elsa. Cécile spent several years at a boarding school after her mother died, it's only recently that ...
Fra pelsjæger til professor Willerslev, Eske
[ book tip by Lasse Korsemann Horne ] 'The twin barrels of the gun fill almost the whole of his mouth. They're cold and have an unpleasant metallic taste [...] this time the gun's loaded. I hesitate. This is it then, I think. This is where it all ends. Bang!' So begins Professor Eske ...
Oscar And The Lady In Pink Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel
[ book tip by Hannah Geismar ] Oscar And The Lady In Pink looks like a children's book, but it defies the idea of what a children's book is supposed to be like, and if I were a librarian I wouldn't know how to categorize it or where to put it, except maybe next to Antoine de Saint Exupery's ...
The Last World Ransmayr, Christoph (Trans. by John E. Woods)
[ book tip by Gábor Palkó ] How should we approach a literary masterpiece that was created hundreds or, rather, thousands of years ago? What mysterious series of transmissions and transformations allows us to pass a work on and make it part of our cultural heritage in the first place? These ...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J.K
[ book tip by Mohamed Bary ] Magic has always been a child's fascination. A diversion from reality that we found only acceptable in fairy tales or fiction books. Although entertaining readers, magic books have never given us the sense of reality and solemnity that makes us peruse every word ...
Der lange Gang über die Stationen Kaiser-Mühlecker, Reinhard
[ book tip by Incentives ] Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker’s first novel Der lange Gang über die Stationen (The Long Walk From Station to Station) takes place in the Salzkammergut Area in upper Austria in the 1950s. The young farmer Theodor marries a woman from the city. The couple’s ...
Double or Nothing Federman, Raymond
[ book tip by Tim Schomacker ] Basically this book is so outstanding – let me tell you! – it should be presented here all by itself. A photo of the cover of the German edition* would be enough. With blue and red letters. This book IS simply: DOUBLE OR NOTHING. Basically you could (I could) – ...
Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky, Fyodor
[ book tip by Michael Boyle ] Raskolnikov shows us that we can punish ourselves better than anyone else. Conversely, one can say that all peace needs to be generated from within. Yes, indeed Dostoevsky should have named this book Zen and the Art of Defining What Needs to be Done .
Eccentric Style von Schaeven, Deidi
[ book tip by Hannah Geismar ] Eccentric Style is a view into a number of homes built by people who decided to stick with that very simple and very complicated thing called a vision. Every example featured is an example of someone having the guts to go all the way, to say this is how I want ...
Brighton Rock Greene, Graham
[ book tip by Ann Morgan ] Arriving in 1930s Brighton to pose as the Kolley Kibber for the Daily Messenger 's holiday competition, the lonely and nervous Hale becomes aware that he is being stalked by a local gang. After desperately evading his murderers among the amusement arcades and ...
Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha Doyle, Roddy
[ book tip by Tunde Eugenia Haulik ] Ha Ha, It’s not Funny Does anyone truly remember what its like to be ten years old? Or has our present age influenced our perspective of what it’s like to be a child? Have we overwritten our childhood sense of being with our adult-like perceptions and our adult ...
Lord of the Flies William, Golding
[ book tip by Michael Boyle ] This is not just Adolph This is not just Brave New World This is not just My Lai This is not just Jonestown This is not just the Stanford Prison Experiment This is not just Abu Graib The bigger message in this book is Yeates ...
Nebe pod Berlínem Rudiš, Jaroslav
[ book tip by arkla rybnikar ] First published in 2002, Jaroslav Rudiš’ debut book Nebe pod Berlínem (The Sky under Berlin) is a very refreshing piece of literature and was an immediate success. It received the Orten Prize, gained widespread publicity and attained cult status.
Animal farm Orwell, George
[ book tip by Mohamed Bary ] Just when one gets confused with the Russian revolution and its historical distortions, swayed under a cascade of information and ambiguity, here comes George Orwell unraveling all historical fragments of the period, thus showing us the real basis of the era. ...
A gyerek Háy, János
[ book tip by Gábor Palkó ] Yet that wasn’t what he became. He could have, but didn’t. The novel conjures up possible paths and visions of successful lives, but then leaves them not only unfulfilled but lets them succumb to ruin and destruction, and sink into the ‘subhuman’. Or the ...
Hideous Kinky Freud, Esther
[ book tip by Tunde Eugenia Haulik ] This is the story of a five-year -old girl and her sister. This is the story of a long and strange holiday, the story of an unconventional mother, the story of an exciting year. This is also a story that sings the beauty of Morocco; it is a special homage to Marrakech ...
My Choice to Abuse Drugs Erekose, Legendary Anonimous
[ book tip by Erekose Hipara ] An amazing book which has been circulating the internet for a year now. No one knows who wrote it, and precisely when - perhaps it was done by an internet spiti?:) Anyway, it deals with the issues concerning drug abuse, and whether you are a prohibitionalist or a ...
Don Juan de la Mancha oder Die Erziehung der Lust Menasse, Robert
[ book tip by Incentives ] Don Juan is over the hill. All that he can now manage to do is look back at his life. Nathan has no desire anymore. And for the always groaning Viennese newspaper editor that is anything but a groan. But rather is to be understood in a thoroughly ambivalent way, that ...
The House on Mango Street Cisneros, Sandra
[ book tip by Translated Tips ] Sabine Scholl writes about the German edition of Das Haus in der Mango Street Not only since the misanthropic rantings of Samuel Huntington, who sees the integrity of white Americans threatened by Spanish-speaking Latinos and Chicanos, ...
Der Wettermacher Weber, Peter
[ book tip by Michel Mettler ] Take the Toggenburg Valley, Zurich, the lake, and main train station - add a young protagonist with an ear for local dialects and legends who lies through his teeth about everything without batting an eye. When Peter Weber’s Wettermacher ...
Anna Karenina Tolstoy, Leo (Translator: Constance Garnett)
[ book tip by Robert Adlam ] Anna Karenina is a terrific novel. It gives us a portrait of Russia at the onset of modernity. Deeply naturalistic, at times the text seems to rise out of the ground itself; there are moments when we feel the chill at sunrise, feel the dew on our boots, hear the ...
Wide Sargasso Sea Rhys, Jean
[ book tip by Ann Morgan ] If you felt that Bertha, Rochester's mad wife in the attic, received a raw deal in Jane Eyre, then Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is the book for you. This is a book that tells hidden stories. Set amid the fragrant and exotic landscape of 1830s ...
Naive. Super. Loe, Erlend
[ book tip by Hannah Geismar ] Erlend is a 25 year-old Norwegian guy who has somehow wandered a little off track in life. He doesn't really know where he's going and nothing seem to excite him anymore. When his brother goes abroad for two months and lets Erlend borrow his apartment ...
Stanice tajga Hůlová, Petra
[ book tip by Lucie Procházková ] To begin with, I have to admit that I found the photo on this book a bit confusing. The word “Taiga” in the title of Petra Hůlová’s novel is written with a small “t” (in Czech, only proper names are capitalised) and stands for Charyn, a village that lies in ...
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Weisberger, Lauren
[ book tip by Hannah Geismar ] The Devil Wears Prada is a about a young girl who gets a job as a personal assistant for the editor in chief of a famous magazine. The boss turns out to be a complete bitch and the book goes on to tell the story of how much the girl hates her boss and how much ...
