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Originally Posted by obooki
Juan Carlos Onetti. Now my favourite South American writer. Mostly due to someone on this site recommending him and causing me actually to read the one book I had. (Have many more now).
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Which Onetti books have you read? I think Juntacadáveres (don't know the English translation) is an amazing novel.
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Originally Posted by Stiffelio
The highlight from my reading year was the Japanese literature course I took in May-July. Thanks to it I discovered fantastic writers such as Natsume Soseki, Ryonosuke Akutagawa, Mori Ogai, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Kenzaburo Oé, and Haruki Murakami. All were new to me and I read some terrific stuff from all of them, but Oé really blew me away with the best novel I read this year, namely The Silent Cry.
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This looks like a really cool year for you Stiffelio, very similar to my last year where I read a lot of Japanese literature and was astonished about it. Now one of my literary purposes for new year wil be to read
The Silent Cry as soon as possible