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Category: Award winnerBy Peter on Jun 8, 2009 in Award winner, Danish writer, Fiction Books, Morten Ramsland, bestseller, book review | 0 Comments
Doghead (Danish title Hundehoved)is a somewhat quirky novel. It has received rave reviews in Europe – and has won the Danish Best Novel and Best Author awards, as well as Book of the Year, the Reader’s Prize and the 2005 Golden Laurel Prize. Not bad!
Strange, yet appealing, Doghead follows three generations of a dysfunctional, odd [...]
By Peter on Apr 29, 2009 in Award winner, Classical novel, Crime Books, Excellent book, Fiction Books, Historical Fiction, The World of Books, Thomas Mann, World literature, book review | 0 Comments
Some works of art are almost logically impossible. Often literature and art capture and present phenomena in ways that contribute to their understanding. This most certainly is the case with the wonderful novel Buddenbrooks. If it is at all possible to convey 19th century German bourgeois atmosphere and culture in a single book, then [...]
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