Fate – Jorge Consiglio
Some books reach their readers exactly when they are needed. Fate became one of those books for me. I think a lot about destiny, life, death and the…
Elif the Reader
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Elif the ReaderSome books reach their readers exactly when they are needed. Fate became one of those books for me. I think a lot about destiny, life, death and the…
Pereira Maintains is the only book I cannot write about but here it goes. Bare with me, please. In an insignificant corner of the world, Pereira, who has…
Bonsai is a short but intense book. Alejandro Zambra won Chile’s Literary Critics’ Best Novel Award with this one, and this is his first novel. When it first…
The Old Man Who Read Love Stories is the first book I’ve read from Luis Sepúlveda, and it will certainly not be the last. I read it with…
Greenwood is a book that will make you think hard about the environment and your family. I wanted to hug trees and all the members of my family…
Paul Lafargue, Karl Marx’s son-in-law, wrote The Right to Be Lazy in 1883. It is a short book, but you shouldn’t let it fool you by its size.…
To Kill a Mockingbird is a legendary novel that I was too late to read, as usual. I liked the book so much that I read it until…
Fahrenheit 451 is a book that I was late to read. And I was so sad because I hadn’t read it earlier. You probably heard of it before;…
I love Russian literature since I started reading classics. Ivan Turgenev entered my life by his most famous book, Fathers and Sons. So I wanted to read his…
I was lucky to find Sándor Márai’s Esther’s Inheritance in one of my favourite bookshops in Turkey. I thought it would be a great book to read while…