#ThrowbackThursday. June 2011 Part 2

I've been doing Throwback Thursdays for a while but I noticed that I wrote a lot of reviews in a short time when I first started. One of my blogger friends always posts the reviews of one month but that would be too much. So, these are my reviews from the third week of June 2011.

Grenville, Kate "The Secret River" - 2005

The story of William Thornhill, whose main crime was to be born into absolute poverty in a time where there was not way out of it, where people were forced to become criminals in order to feed their families and, when caught, sent to a foreign country, a country so remote that the voyage there was one of no return.

Guterson, David "East of the Mountains" - 1999

What does a surgeon do who suffers from terminal illness and knows what is about to happen to him?

Guterson, David "Snow Falling on Cedars" - 1994

Growing up in Germany, you hear everything about World War II, well, everything the Germans did and everywhere the Germans went and everyone who came to Germany etc. You hardly ever hear about the Pacific part of the war. 

Guterson, David "Our Lady of the Forest" - 2003

 A young girl has run away from home and settles in the woods where she claims she is visited by the Virgin Mary and ordered to build a church at that place.

Guterson, David "The Other" - 2008

The story of the prince and the pauper, two boys with completely different backgrounds.

Hesse, Hermann "Siddhartha: An Indian Poem" (German: Siddhartha) - 1922

In ancient India, Siddhartha, the son of a Brahmin, the highest caste, becomes an ascetic. Together with a friend he wants to find the enlightenment. 

Hesse, Hermann "Steppenwolf" (German: Der Steppenwolf) - 1927

Is it possible at all to understand someone in such a mental state if you are not in the same one (or have never been in it)? Or is it better to read it if you're not in that state?

Read my original reviews, for the links click on the titles.