- Slum virgins by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
- Bled dry by Abdelilah Hamdouchi
- Love/war by Ebba Witt-Brattstrom
- Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
- Maryam keeper of stories by Alawiya Sobh
- Istanbul Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez
- The Black notebook by Patrick Modiano
- So you don’t get lost in the Neighbourhood by Patrick Modiano
I managed to review eight books last month. A quieter month than last year. But I feel every book, I read this month was one I would recommend to any other reader. I managed to read two of the three books for the EBRD LIT prize shortlist. I had to read for the Shadow Jury. I read books from six languages and seven countries. Also Seven publishers. No new publishers to the blog this month.
Book of the month
As I said it was a hard month. To Choose the book of the month. All the books could have been a book of a month on another month. This is maybe the most important book on the list lit-wise as it is one of the cornerstones of Modernist literature and finally we get a better idea of what Doblin had in mind for his journey through the darker side of Berlin. Michael Hoffman has breathed life into this book.
None book discovery
Well, I am a fan of streaming films tv shows. I found another new service this month. Filmstruck has been in the US for a number of years. It has a partnership with the Criterion collection the US DVD company, this means it has some gems in the collection. Gems from them on her include Three Colours, which I have the DVD of but not seen in HD. They also have a number of Andrei Tarkovsky’s films including Stalker.I look forward to seeing what else they have to watch.
