A Photo Diary, 1987-1989
On the Wall in My Head blog, there’s a cool new post with a photo diary by Bill Martin that includes a host of pictures and captions from Berlin between 1987 and 1989 (when the Wall came down). Take a look. (By the way, if you’re not already following it, the aforementioned blog is dedicated to the book The Wall ...
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World Literature Tour: Germany
We’re a little late on this, but The Guardian’s World Literature Tour made its latest stop in
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The Have-Nots
At the outset, I didn’t particularly care for this book. Yet, as a work of fiction, The Have-Nots bears no great deficiencies and has, in fact, a certain charm to it. In spite of this, or, perhaps, because of it, I can’t love this book. Perhaps my heart is too small to embrace the multitude of characters, or perhaps my ...
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Germanic Book Quiz
Dispatches from Zembla is running a Germanic literature quiz — Alok provides the excerpt, and you try to figure out the book — if you want to find out, like me, how little you know about German language ...
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Day In Day Out
Day In Day Out was Terézia Mora’s debut novel, and it won the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2004, the year of its release in Germany. At the beginning of the novel, Abel Nema lives with his mother in an unnamed Balkan country. His father has abandoned them, and after a fruitless search, his mother ...
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