Another charming bit of rather harmless fun through the eyes of Mma Ramotswe, written in McCall Smith’s unique voice. The somewhat moralistic tone seems appropriate in the portrayed culture.
The menfolk come off with a few scars, but that’s OK.
Eine sehr gut erfoschte und lehrreiche Abhandlung, die mutig versucht, die Mächte und Ereignisse, die Bosnien über die Jahrhunderte formten, zu entwirren. Es scheint mir etwas merkwürdig, dass Malcolm, in einem vom Krieg zerrütteten Gebiet mit ständig verändernden Herrschern, Grenzen, und nationalen Zuständen, gerade multiethnisches, multireligiöses Bosnien besonders heraushebt, als besitze oder verdiene es politische…
Ein krasses Buch, schockierend sowohl wegen der seelischen Korruption der Haupttäter, wie auch wegen der masslosen Gewalt. Kann es das geben: ein Junge so innerlich verbittert, durch Kindheitserlebnisse so verletzt, sein Gewissen so abgestumpft, wie Darky – selbstsüchtig, prahlerisch, der seine helle Freude daran hat, unschuldige Menschen zu terrorisieren, durch seine ‘Leibwächter’ zusammenschlagen oder deren…
Ellen Fenwick, commonly known as Fenny or Elena, a burnt-out, single English teacher, jumps at the chance to become a governess for eight-year-old Juliet, whose family is recuperating for some months in a villa near Florence. She has been caring for her sick mother and has never travelled before, never experienced romance.
I usually look for historical fiction when I visit a new place. But during a recent sailing trip among the spectacular Swedish skerries, the only novel I found with a local setting in the bookshop of the picturesque island of Sandhamn was a contemporary murder mystery. It took me only a few days to devour…
This book is captivating from the start and very well written. We feel we get to know unfathomable Lila in spite of her contradictory character and also Lenù, the narrator. We feel their strife, their longings, their first attempts at love, the inevitable rivalries. But there are too many characters to keep track of and…
How refreshing to read a compact, no nonsense book in which the great Bible teacher/apologist – I remember him well from my student days in London – “considers eight characteristics of Christian discipleship which are often neglected and yet deserve to be taken seriously.” John Stott makes no attempt to be sensational and refrains from embellishing…