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The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
København - folk og kvarterer by Pernille Stensgaard
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
The Silence in the Garden (King Penguin) by William Trevor
India: Granta 57 by Granta
Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River by Gertrude Crampton
A High Wind in Jamaica (Penguin Modern Classics) by Richard Hughes
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Favorite authorsDavid Malouf, Joseph Roth, W. G. Sebald (Shared favorites)
About meI'm married with two Danish-Australian children, Anna (10) and Carl (7). I work as an international legal advisor for the Danish Institute for Human Rights, with current projects in Vietnam, China, Iran, Bangladesh and Papua and New Guinea.
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About my libraryI've enjoyed reading books, for work and for pleasure, as long as I can remember. Its something my parents instilled in me and which I would like to pass on to my own two children.
My library reflects the places I have lived, the countries I have visited, friends and lovers old and new, and, not least, my own imaginings of other lives that might be lived, places not yet explored. My mother and father gave me English classics to read. I read a lot more English literature at university, and in my spare time some Russian and French classics. Only later did I start exploring Ozlit, and even later again, the literatures of Southern, Eastern, and, most important of all, Central Europe.
I don't like to rate books, but I use the tag 'just a great book' for those books that have meant a lot to me through the years, or which I admire greatly. Style is more important to me than content. I could read the phone book if it was written by Joseph Roth.
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Thanks for your message, and for the Sosekei recommendations. I will look out for them, I think he is readily available in Taiwan.
I like your review of The Tree of Man very much. I read Voss years and years ago, and was always struck by the genius of the opening in particular. I obviously need to read more PW.
I am enjoying browsing through your library!
Best wishes,
Murr
posted by tomcatMurr at 9:56 pm (EST) on Sep 7, 2009
Yours is an interesting library as well and I think I will return the favor. I was looking through your Scandianavian, German and French lists. We share some books but there are a lot more we don't. Anyway I look at that as probably a good thing. I always like to find something new.
posted by lriley at 8:54 am (EST) on Sep 7, 2009
All the best from Dublin, Kevin Honan
posted by Skinnersrow at 4:10 am (EST) on Jun 10, 2009