Reading List: war

It was the first book I ever read in English, out of necessity: for a long time, it simply wasn’t available in German (the translation, “Im Sturm,” only came out much later). A classmate lent it to me. The pro-American slant was even more obvious in this one. The ending felt like a bit of a deus ex machina to me, but I

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My paternal grandparents had a guest room. It was a somewhat strange room. It was lower than all the other – in themselves rather high-ceilinged – rooms in the house. Three steps led up into it. Inside there was a bed, a sofa. And many, many books. Much of it wasn’t my thing: Johannes Mario Simmel (yes, really Simmel,

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