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“The Café on the Edge of the World” By John P. Strelecky: Where To Find The Meaning Of Life
I’m not a big fan of the “motivational” genre, regardless of the manifestation form: book, film, speech etc. My entry into the “Cafe at...
‘The Pleasure Marriage’ By Tahar Ben Jelloun: A Struggle Against Rasism, A Struggle For Love
I met Tahar Ben Jelloun through “The Sand Child”. Once I entered the Moroccan universe, and because the first novel did not quench my...
'Florence in Ecstasy' By Jessie Chaffee: A Painful Struggle for Healing
When reading the title, my mind suddenly thought about a journey in Florence, among works of art and history and flavoured sweets and...
’The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ By John Boyne: The Tragedies Of History Must Never Fade
An inexhaustible source of sadness and revolt, the Holocaust occupies a special place in fictional and nonfictional literature. Rivers of...
‘Betweend Shades of Grey’ By Ruta Sepetys: The Cruelty Of History Is Beyond Imagination
Reading an analogy made between Hitler’s horrors and Stalin’s, I came to a literary comparison between “The Tattooist of Auschwitz”...
‘The Beekeeper of Aleppo’ By Christy Lefteri:A Bee That Learnt To Live Without Wings
If you knew how this book came to me, how beautifully it related to the previously read book, in a strange and inexplicable way, showing...
‘Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage’ – Alice Munro: The Spectacular Woman
First of all, I confess that I was never attracted to short stories, not even when it belong to writers whose novels I devoured from the...
’My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry’ By Fredrik Backman: A story is never just a story
I met Fredrik Backman through ’A Man Named Ove’ and the meeting was so frothy, so funny despite the sadness, so deep despite the...
’Fever Dream’ By Samanta Schweblin: Walking Blind Through A Dark World
Lately, I have paid special attention to the debut novels of contemporary writers belonging to different cultures, novels that bring into...
'Birdsong' By Sebastian Faulks: Saved By Love
I discovered Sebastian Faulks, the contemporary British novelist and journalist thanks to Humanitas Caravan, last autumn, with his jewel...
'The Journal Of A German Doctor During WWII' By Raluca Modreanu: Choices And Destiny
Browsing through the latest recommendations regarding literary delights through my beloved literary groups, a book really got my...
‘My Children’ By Guzel Yakhina: A Consuming, Winding Book Like The Volga River
After I finished reading the first book signed by Guzel Yakhina (“Zuleikha”), I exclaimed: what a magnificent literary debut! A maturity...
'The Sand Child' By Tahar Ben Jelloun: What If You Wouldn’t Know Who You Are?
I must confess that I have a great passion for literature that addresses the status of women in different cultures and throughout...
'Days Of Abandonment' By Elena Ferrante: A Journey To The Inner Self
For me, Elena Ferrante was the revelation of 2020, her Neapolitan tetralogy enchanting my pandemic days and nights. When I said...


















