Târfe asasine / Putas asesinas - Roberto Bolaño

My rating: 4 out of 5 Book review: Putas asesinas or Murderous Bitches is my first encounter with the prose of Roberto Bolaño. What can I say? I'm hooked by his talent as a story teller, by his imagination, weaving real life facts with fabricated ones. What I liked the most was the dreamy...

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Pedro Páramo - Juan Rulfo

My rating: 5 out of 5 Book review: At the end of a lot of struggling days and a 70-pages document with new words, I've managed to finish my first novel read in Spanish. As I feel like I've earned a prize, I have to thank Linda and Dolors for their support! I'm not sure I've chosen the right novel...

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The Door - Magda Szabó

My rating: 5/5 Book review: Romanians and Hungarians have a long history of not liking each other. I'm no xenophobe and I have a few friends in Budapest, yet I was sometimes wondering: what does Hungary have to offer in terms of art, music and literature? They could say the same about Romanians,...

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The Ghost Rider - Ismail Kadaré

Rating: 4/5 Book Review: The Ghost Rider was initially published in English under the title Doruntine and it is another case of translation from French, not from the original Albanian. This situation puzzles me and has turned many people off from reading Ismail Kadaré's The Palace of Dreams,...

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