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I am reading Nicole Krauss' The History of Love. And as usual I' m out on the net looking for info. Found some suggestions for reading - none of which I knew about earlier - maybe a new world opens up when you move out of the detective novel area.
"Danilo Kis, to begin with, who was born in 1935 in Yugoslavia. I'd suggest starting with Garden, Ashes (republished last year in an excellent translation by Dalkey Archive), an astonishing, beautiful story of a childhood lived during the Second World War, and of the transformative power of the imagination in the face of historical tragedy. Roberto Bolaño also comes to mind, a Chilean writer who died a few years ago, far too early, at the age of fifty. New Directions has just started to publish his books in English. By Night in Chile -- a deathbed confession written in one breath, a single, unbroken paragraph that covers the territory of a life -- is exquisite. I also love The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt and The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald. This morning I finished the Brazilian writer Chico Buarque's new novel, Budapest, and now I want to read it all over again, it's that good."
More interesting facts - Krauss is married to another young writer named Jonathan Safran Foer. Evidently they are both jewish and both have written two bestsellers. Foer's are "everything is illuminated" and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Something to look for at Ad Libris???