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 April 2014.
Busch, Wilhelm "Max and Moritz" (German: Max und Moritz) - 1865
A german classical children's book. The two boys are very mischievous, anything young boys would like to do they do. But in the end they get punished hardly.
Calvino, Italo "Why Read the Classics?" (Italian: Perché leggere i classici?) 1991
If you enjoy reading classic literature, this is a great way of getting a list of worthwhile books to read and maybe getting a glimpse of what it might be.
Pamuk, Orhan "Snow" (Turkish: Kar) - 2002
Ka is a Turkish poet who lives in Germany but visits a town in Turkey called Kars. While he is there, they have a heavy snowfall and nobody can leave or enter the town. The Turkish name for snow is "kar". What a coincidence!
Seth, Vikram "Two Lives" - 2005
The author describes not just the life of his great-uncle and his Jewish wife, he describes his own life, he describes the life and death of ordinary people during the holocaust as well as the terrible fate of the Jews. But he also describes life in India pre- and post independence. Quite an undertaking.
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