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Originally Posted by A Common Reader
Stewart
Perfume (Suskind) is a very fine book in my view - far better than you might be led to believe by the publicity. The film was pretty good too (unusuall).
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The copy I previously bought was just before the movie came out as I wanted to read it but didn't want a movie tie-in copy. But then I never read the book or saw the film and, seeing it in the new Penguin Modern Classics style and also in a book store offer, I knew I wanted that.
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Asne Seierstad: The Angel of Grozny, Inside Cheyna
Stefan Zweig: Fantastic Night and other short stories
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I have Seierstad's two previous books, one about Serbia (if I remember correctly) and Afghanistan. And I keep meaning to return to Zweig, as it's been a couple of years since I read
Buchmendel and
The Invisible Collection. There's
a press release from Pushkin Press here about a forthcoming translation of
Franziska by Ernst Weiss, who was "an intimate of Zweig".
And talking of both Penguin Modern Classics and people called Ernst, I bought Ernst Jünger's
Storm Of Steel during lunch, being his memoir of the First World War.