Heinrich Böll- And Never Said a Word

Novel

Short Review:

The novel deals with the thoughts and actions of Fred and Käte Bogner, a married couple. Fred, feeling sick of the poverty of their house,

Soul Mountain- Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian- Soul Mountain

Short Review:

In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death.But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer—he had won "a second reprieve from death.

James Herriot - If Only They Could Talk

Short Review:

When the newly qualified vet, James Herriot, arrives in the small Yorkshire village of Darrowby, he has no idea of the new friends he will meet or adventures that lie ahead. From the author whose books inspired the BBC series "All Creatures Great and Small",

Red Sorghum- Mo Yan

Red Sorghum- Mo Yan

Novel

Nobel Prize

Short Review:

The acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning three generations,

Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow

The Sea of Fertility, 1

Novel

Short Review:

Yukio Mishima’s Spring Snow is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here we meet Shigekuni Honda,

Alberto Moravia- Boredom

Alberto Moravia-  Boredom

Or The Empty Canvas

Short Review

The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society.

Yasunari Kawabata- The Old Capital

(Nobel Prize)

The Old Capital is one of the three novels cited specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968.