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Teru rated SPQR : a history of ancient Rome: 4 stars
SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome is a 2015 book by English classicist Mary Beard that was published in the …
Teru rated Thomas Mann: 3 stars
Agostino by Alberto Moravia (New York Review of Books Classics)
Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up …
Teru rated Silver Spoon: 4 stars
Teru rated Thousand Cranes: 4 stars
Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata
With a restraint that barely conceals the ferocity of his characters' passions, one of Japan's great postwar novelists tells the …
Teru rated Animal Life: 3 stars
Teru rated The setting sun: 5 stars
The setting sun by Osamu Dazai
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set …
Teru rated The Setting Sun: 5 stars
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set …
Teru rated Red Roofs and Other Stories: 4 stars
Red Roofs and Other Stories by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Anthony H. Chambers, Paul McCarthy (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, #79)
The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki’s long career and reflect themes …
Teru rated Lotus Sutra: 1 star
Teru rated Wild Swims: 3 stars
Wild Swims by Dorthe Nors
This is a collection resplendent with longing. In these compact pages, people meet without actually connecting, travellers set off but …
Teru rated Minor Detail: 4 stars
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli, Elisabeth Jaquette, ʻAdanīyah Shiblī
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba—the …
