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This is a space for you to exchange ideas, opinions and feelings about the books we are looking at and the ones you have chosen to present, perhaps even recommend some new ones.

As we only have bi-weekly classes this is an ideal place to meet and to relate your reading experiences between classes. Hopefully the posts here will also add to the richness of the discussions in class and provide a jumping off point for areas of discussion we might otherwise have overlooked.

Basically, the more you post, the more useful the blog.

So get writing!

Oliver

Wednesday, 15 December 2010

Friday's recommendation shortlist

Dear all,

I'm considering various books to recommend you next Friday, but it's not easy for me to choose only one. I've decided to introduce you books that you probably don't know, as I assume that you have already read the famous ones that I really love or, at least, have some information about them (that is, from García Márquez to Benedetti, from Salinger to Foster Wallace, from Nabokov to Hemingway, from Galeano to Saramago, from Kundera to Rodoreda, from Baricco to Cortázar, from Safran Foer to Hornby...). So, I've shortlisted four authors that I assume you've probably never heard anything about, and I'd like you to vote for one of the four. So, the titles -and some information about them- are:
So, we have a Croatian (who writes in English), an Iranian (who also writes in English), a Norwegian and an Hebrew. If you need more information about any of them, please let me know. I hope you'll help me to choose one, so I'll wait for your votes.

Aniol
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  1. Julia16 December 2010 at 08:41

    Dear Aniol,
    As you might have guessed I am going to vote for "Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith" by Gina B. Nahai. You had already told us that Ben Okri's narrative reminded you of hers. As I liked Ben Okri's narrative very much, although I thought it was a tiny little bit too repetitive in his descriptions, I am sure I will enjoy Nahai's novel to the most. One of my favourites books of all times, past and present, is "Novecento" by Alessandro Baricco.Have you read it? Thanks a lot again....See you tomorrow,
    Julia

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