Here are the last 4 books I've read since December:
1 / Goodbye Berlin (Tschick)
2 / Les oreilles de Buster / Buster's ears (Busters öron)
3 / Montecore, un tigre unique (Montecore: en unik tiger)
4 / Le soldat et le gramophone (Wie der Soldat das Grammofon repariert)
I wanted to select only one but the choice was too difficult because my two favorite are very very different. So here is a summary of each book. I confess I found these two abstracts on the internet. It's always difficult for me to write "long & beautiful" texts in English.... ;)
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BUSTER'S EARS
Swedish novel
"Buster’s Ears tells about the complicated relationship between a mother and daughter at the same time as it tells about love, trust and betrayal. It alternates between the present and the 1950s and 1960s, between life by the sea and life in the big city, between the grown-up woman and the child. It's also about modern society’s inhumane eldercare. This is a powerful and unsettling relationship drama as well as a tender, bittersweet love story." via
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GOODBYE BERLIN
German novel
"A journey into the countryside...in a Lada. With his mother in rehab and father away on a business trip with his young lover, Maik is home alone in his parents’ villa. It’s the first day of the summer holidays. Together with Tschick, a German-Russian from the tower blocks on the wrong side of the tracks in Hellersdorf, Maik shows up in a stolen Lada at Tatjana’s birthday party, a girl he’s head over heels in love with. Soon after, they’re tearing through the German countryside in the blazing sunshine, heading ever further south east, to Walachei, where Tschick’s grandfather lives. This latest novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf is a story of an impossible friendship between two boys - a road novel packed with melancholy and humour." via
This is Kristin from Li+Belle who made me discover this novel. I thank her because it's always nice to read people's lives, habits, places of other countries. That's why I like reading foreign novels so much.
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