I've been doing ThrowbackThursdays for a while but I noticed that I wrote a lot of reviews in a short time when I first started.So, I post more than one Throwback every week. These are my reviews from September 2012.
Grass, Günter "Crabwalk" (German: Im Krebsgang) - 2002
A tough read, like anything by this author, but definitely worth it, also like everything he ever wrote.
A tough read, like anything by this author, but definitely worth it, also like everything he ever wrote.
Hartnett, Sonya "Thursday’s Child" - 2002
A book about the Great Depression in Australia, a novel about a family who struggles like any other family during the time, a story about a boy who is different, ...
A book about the Great Depression in Australia, a novel about a family who struggles like any other family during the time, a story about a boy who is different, ...
Rasputin, Valentin (Распутин, Валентин Григорьевич) "Farewell to Matyora" (Russian: Прощание с Матёрой/Proschanie s Materoj) - 1976
A wonderful account of what development and progression can do to people. Matyora is a village in Siberia, a village like there are millions in this world. Or, in this case, it has been. The government decides to build a dam and float the whole area.
Spyri, Johanna "Heidi" (German: "Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre" and "Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat") - 1880-1881
The first book I ever owned. Heidi grows up with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
The first book I ever owned. Heidi grows up with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps.
Tsypkin, Leonid Borissowitsch (Леонид Борисович Цыпкин) "Summer in Baden-Baden" (Russian: Ljubit Dostojewskowo - лджубит достоджэвсково) - 1981
A biographical novel about Dostoevsky's travels in Germany with this wife.Read my original reviews, for the links click on the titles.
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