I picked up Khaled Hosseini's book A Thousand Splendid Suns, on the recommendation of @viajar_pelas_paginas. An inspiring story of...

En attendant Godot Waiting for Godot is a play in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of...

The Old Man and the Sea Hemingway claimed that the novel The Old Man and the Sea is his best work of which he is most proud. Literary...

Eternities I Am Not I I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other...

Doctor Zhivago Many of us have watched the movie directed by David Lean with Omar Sharif and Julie Christie in the lead roles. The book...

Poetry Grant Me My Day (Dammi il mio giorno, Ed è subito sera, Milano, Mondadori 1942). Grant me my day; so I might yet search myself...

Thousand Cranes This is one of the most beautiful book covers I have ever had in my hands. The book describes life in Japan in the late...

The green pope (El papa verde) This is a book of a political nature in which the dirty machinations of big American capital in ...

Nausea The novel takes place in the town Bouville. The main protagonist is a historian, who becomes convinced that the objects and...

Poetry Lost Worlds (Mythistorima, Μυθιστόρημα, 1935) How can you gather together the thousand fragments of each person? What's...

Ex Ponto; Riots; Lyrics “Ex Ponto” (1918) is a collection of poems in which the poet talks to his soul. These records, written in...

Diary of '71. Eugenio Montale (12 October 1896 – 12 September 1981) was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor, and translator. Montale...

The Slave The main protagonist of the love story is Jacob who lived in Josefov, a Jewish town in Poland in the 17th century. Cossacks...

Humboldt’s Gift The main protagoinist of the story is Charlie Citrine, a a man with an passion for literature. As a young man, at his...

Flowering Nettle This book is partially an autobiographical novel describing the writer’s childhood and youth in a Swedish provincial...

伊凡·傑尼索維奇的一天 伊万·丹尼索维奇·舒霍夫（Ivan Denisovich Shukhov）被判处苏联古拉格（系统）强迫劳动营地十年。 他是无辜的，被指控在第二次世界大战中被德国人俘虏后成为间谍。 一天从舒霍夫（Shukhov）起床开始。...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Ivan Denisovich Shukhov has been sentenced to ten years to a forced labor camp in the Soviet...

致力于脊柱 (Dedicated to the Spine) 1978年，在去巴西旅行之后，布罗德斯基写了一篇文章 旅行结束后，或者献身于脊椎。 这项工作由散文作品组成，这些文物吸引了旅行游记。 第一个是所罗门·沃尔科夫与布罗德斯基的对话，第二个是关于苏联间谍的。...

Dedicated to the Spine In 1978, after a trip to Brazil, Brodsky wrote an essay After a Trip or Dedicated to the Spine. This work...

九點半鐘的檯球 罗伯特·法梅尔（Robert Faehmel）的秘书莱昂诺尔（Leonore）描述了罗伯特（Robert）在所有工作中都一丝不苟。罗伯特的一个老朋友到达办公室，但莱昂诺尔将他每天9:30至11:00送往海因里希王子饭店。想要见罗伯特的那个人被命名为Nettl...