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 January 2013.
Bradbury, Ray "Fahrenheit 451" - 1953
This novel was written in the fifties, in the United States, at the height of the McCarthy era, when the fear of the communists during the Cold War was leading to almost witch-huntlike attacks on citizens.
This novel was written in the fifties, in the United States, at the height of the McCarthy era, when the fear of the communists during the Cold War was leading to almost witch-huntlike attacks on citizens.
Faulks, Sebastian "Birdsong. A Novel of Love and War" - 1993
The author has successfully tried to describe something unsurpassable, something so astonishingly unimaginable. Today wars are fought differently. But if you read this novel, you will see that the tragedies of losing friends and loved ones in a war cannot be changed, it will remain the same, no matter how they get killed.
Hill, Richard "We Europeans" - 1992
A very interesting book about the different nations of Europe, their likes and dislikes, their similarities and their differences.
A very interesting book about the different nations of Europe, their likes and dislikes, their similarities and their differences.
Mo, Yan "Red Sorghum. A Novel of China" (Chinese: 红高粱家族 Hóng gāoliang jiāzú) - 1987
The story takes place during the second Sino-Japanese war between 1937 and 1945, so approximately the same time the whole world was at war. The narrator tells the story of his ancestors during that time.
Xu, Ruiyan "The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai" - 2010
Quite a different book about China, it's actually a story that could take place anywhere in the world. After an accident, a man loses part of his brain and can only speak the language he grew up with but does not reign that of his wife and child.
Quite a different book about China, it's actually a story that could take place anywhere in the world. After an accident, a man loses part of his brain and can only speak the language he grew up with but does not reign that of his wife and child.
Yerby, Frank "Speak now" - 1969
A love story between a white woman and a black musician in Paris.
A love story between a white woman and a black musician in Paris.
Yerby, Frank "Griffin's Way" - 1962
A good novel about the story of the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern part of the United States after the Civil War.
A good novel about the story of the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern part of the United States after the Civil War.
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