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Kishon, Ephraim "So sorry we won" ( Pardon, wir haben gewonnen. Vom Sechstagekrieg bis zur Siegesparade ein Jahr danach ) - 1967 ...

Brooks, Geraldine "People of the Book" - 2008 This is going to be one of my favourite books this year. Such a wonderful story abou...

Kazantzakis, Nikos "The Last Temptation of Christ" (Greek: Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός/O telefteos pirasmos) - 1951 I have read a few b...

Hajaj, Claire "Ishmael's Oranges" - 2014 I had just finished another book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ( Against the L...

Abulhawa, Susan "Against the Loveless World" - 2020 I've read many books about the conflict in Israel/Palestine and the more...

Lagerkvist, Pär "Barabbas" (Swedish: Barabbas) - 1950 For the The Classics Spin #33 , we were given #18 , and this was my novel. A...

Brooks, Geraldine "Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over" - 1997 Geraldine Brooks describes...

Bulgakow, Michail "The Master and Margarita" ( Russian: Мастер и Маргарита/Master i Margarita ) - 1929-39 When the last " cla...

Waltari, Mika "The Secret of the Kingdom" ( Finnish: Valtakunnan salaisuus ) (The Malinianus Duology) - 1959 This is my thi...

Ahmad, Aeham "The Pianist from Syria" (aka The Pianist of Yarmouk) (German: Und die Vögel werden singen. Ich, der Pianist a...

Abulhawa, Susan "The Blue Between Sky and Water" - 2015 This is my second book by Susan Abulhawa. I loved " Mornings in ...

Olson, Pamela J. "Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland" - 2011 Like most of us growing up in the W...

Abarbanell, Stephan "Displaced" (German: Morgenland ) - 2015 What a highly interesting book. I always like to learn about ...

Grossman, David "The Zig Zag Kid" ( Hebrew: יש ילדים זיגזג/Jesh Jeladim ) - 1994 A fascinating story about a boy gro...

Joinson, Suzanne "The Photographer's Wife" - 2016 I stumbled upon this book in a bookshop and liked the title and the cov...

Abulhawa, Susan "Mornings in Jenin" (aka The Scar of David) - 2010 Everyone who is only slightly interested in world peace sh...

Talshir, Anat "About the Night" aka "If I Forget Thee" ( Hebrew: אם אשכך ירושלים/Im Eshkahekh ) - 2010 A beautiful...

I have a long lasting love affair with Ephraim Kishon. It started in secondary school which is about the age of ten in Germany. I had a wo...

Seth, Vikram "Two Lives" - 2005 I had already read two novels by Vikram Seth before, " A Suitable Boy " and " A...

Grjasnowa, Olga "All Russians Love Birch Trees" (German: Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt ) - 2012  I heard ab...