Inez Tan – This is where I won’t be alone
A friend recommended me the recent book of Inez Tan, This is where I won’t be alone, and above that got me a copy signed by the author delivered to a conference in Korea...
Tagged: Literature
everything related to literature, or reading, or books
Wendy Berliner, Deborah Eyre: Great Minds And How To Grow Them
I never read any of these typical Howto books, and when it comes to raising up my child I am also quite confident that I know more or less what I want to do...
Han Kang: The Vegetarian
The Vegetarian by Han Kang (한강) is a rough, dark, and intriguing story about two families onto which a series of strange events inflicts irreparable damage. Set in modern day Korea it draws a...
Marko Lukša: Kubernetes in Action
The rise of Kubernetes as one of the most important tools for devops engineers and developers is out of discussion. But until I moved into my current company I never had any chance to...
Stella Stejskal – Im Mezzanin
A book about being woman, mother in a modern but still traditional society. About happiness and fulfillment, love and sex, responsibility and dependency, about life: Stella Stejskal‘s Im Mezzanin (in German). Written by a...
Ryu Murakami – Tokyo Decadence
The other Murakami, Ryu Murakami (村上 龍), is hard to compare to the more famous Haruki. His collection of stories reflects the dark sides of Tokyo, far removed from the happy world of AKB48...
Cornelia Travnicek – Junge Hunde
A novel on late adolescence and self-finding, set on a mixture of stages ranging from Vienna, its Hinterland, to China. The recent book of the Viennese young writer Cornelia Travnicek (official page, WikiPedia) tells...
I. J. Parker – The Dragon Scroll
Very enthralling and entertaining criminal story set in the 11th century Japan, the starting point of a series of novels around Sugawara Akitada (菅原 顕忠), a fictional official/scholar in the Heian period who solves...
Yukio Mishima: Patriotism (憂国)
A masterpiece by Yukio Mishima – Patriotism – the story of love and dead. A short story about the double suicide of a Lieutenant and his wife following the Ni Ni Roku Incident where...
Suki Kim – Without You, There Is No Us
A book that goes further behind the walls that surround North Korea than anything else I have seen. Suki Kim managed to squeeze herself, American-Korean, into a English teaching job at the Pyongyang University...
Yukio Mishima – The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
A masterpiece of modern Japanese literature: Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫) The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (金閣寺). The fictional story about the very real arson attack that destroyed the Golden Pavilion in 1950. A bit...
Osamu Dazai – No Longer Human
Japanese authors have a tendency to commit suicide, it seems. I have read Ryunosuke Akutagawa (芥川 龍之介, at 35), Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, at 45), and also Osamu Dazai (太宰 治, at 39). Their...
Jonas Jonasson – The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden
Just finished my first book of Jonas Jonasson, a Swedish journalist and author. Most famous for his book The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, but author of two others. The...
Michael Köhlmeier: Zwei Herren am Strand
This recent book of the Austrian author Michael Köhlmeier, Zwei Herren am Strand (Hanser Verlag), spins a story about an imaginative friendship between Charlie Chaplin and Winston Churchill. While there might not as be...
ハリー・ポッターとアズカバンの囚人 (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)
Yeah, another book finished in Japanese, the third Harry Potter book, Prisoner of Azkaban. Took me quite some time, but thanks to a good Kobo ebook reader and my own enriched dictionary reading is...
