The Tenant - Roland Topor

Rating: 5 out of 5 Book review: The Tenant or The Chimerical Lodger is still vivid in my mind - the book made quite a powerful impression on me. Although the beginning was rather slow, with depictions of mundane activities which seemed redundant, the strange happenings were not long overdue and...

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House of the Sleeping Beauties - Yasunari Kawabata

Rating: 4 out of 5 Book review: I value the books whose plot has managed to stay etched in my mind. Some of the novels I've read are pleasant, but they are soon forgotten. The ones that shape me and teach me are the most valued, of course; but I keep a special place for those that I remember....

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The Story of My Baldness - Marek van der Jagt

My rating: 4 out of 5 Book review: From the first page, I said to myself: I'll love this novel! Which was almost true. This is the kind of book that you browse in a bookstore and immediately decide to buy (if you are not averse to coming-of-age novels, that is). The writing is juicy, witty and...

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Under the Glacier - Halldór Laxness

My rating: 5 out of 5 Book review: Here's an Icelandic writer of which I've heard nothing about, despite the fact that he won the Nobel prize for literature. I found the book by chance, the synopsis sounded interesting enough, so I began reading and... helplessly fell in love with the novel.  This...

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