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We have this one in the Botanic garden of SPb, and it's great annual attraction for visitors (night opening, etc.). But your flower is perfect! Not great fan of cacti, but this one is great! Congratulations on this visitation! Best guest is rare guest)))

The German nickname is great one!!! It fits to the flower very well!

Amazing foxgloves! And very beautiful hydrangea!

It's viola tricolor. Russian nickname of this flower is Eyes of little Anna (Anyuta), which is a little bit scary. This time of year we have only wild species:

I know, folks, you are not big fans of gardening, but I want to boast of my newest "pet". It's imperial fritillary. I planted the bulbs last Sempetmber and voila! There is + 6 C outside, but the flower is in its full beauty!

"Jazz" is love of my life. Truly amazing book.

Mia Couto, Sleepwalking Land - I think, it's his best novel. (But I didn't read whole Sands of the Emperor, only its first volume, so....). There are all his typical features (mythical elements in twists of plot, wordplay, usage of secondary speech through diary or letters, etc.), but somehow...

Ananda Devi, When night agrees to speak to me Hayden White, The Practical Past (in Rus.)

Anne Carson, Wrong Norma (and it's really book with wight and presence, bigger than her typical shorter volumes) Aase Berg, Dark matter (in Rus.).

And I can see why. But still, it seems his language is very poetic!

IMHO, "The Three Evangelists" series is much much better. Especially, first and third (last) novels! Really enjoyed.

Part of this Couto's novel?

Mia Couto, " Sleepwalking Land".

Yes, I did read "A General Theory of Oblivion" (it was good), "The Book of Chameleons" (it was fantastic!), "Creole" (it was OK) and now "Queen Ginga" (it's OK too). Main problem of the book (IMHO) is huge disproportion between its volume (130 pp or something) and density of its action. I can't...

"Murambi, The book of bones" by Boubacar Boris Diop "Queen Ginga and how Africans invented the world" by José Eduardo Agualusa

Maryse Conde, "The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana" (in Rus.). Kind of "RIP read". A half a book in, and by this moment it's interesting. A think, it's correct word: not good, or great, or enjoyable, but interesting.

New parcel from USA: two books about Aby Warburg One book about Fred Wilson "Captives" by Norman Manea "The country of planks" by Raul Zurita "Murambi, The book of bones" by Boubacar Boris Diop

He is more reserved here, IMHO. In the Saramago's it's (usually) story with happy end.

By the way, I had similar feelings. In 2005 or something I did read it first time. In 2018, after visiting Lisbon, I did read it again. And both times I was struck by its boredom. And usually I loved his novels! But it seems, female characters is his blind spot. And this recurring trop of affair...

And what about this one? It's "typical Handke" or "typical good Handke"?)))