Monday, January 12, 2009
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Some of the stuff I read before going to Istanbul
- Cornelia Tomerius, Ein Jahr in Istanbul
- Elik Shafak, The Bastard of Istanbul
- Geert Mak, De brug
- Orhan Pamuk, Der Blick aus meinem Fenster
- Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City
- Orhan Pamuk, My name is Red
- Orhan Pamuk, Snow
Something to click on
Something to read (non-fiction)
- Allahs Schatten über Atatürk. Die Türkei in der Zereißprobe, Peter Scholl-Latour
- De enige Gast, Dylan van Eijkeren
- Generation Kill, Evan Wright
- Il Principe (The Prince), Niccolò Machiavelli
- Irak. Geschichte eines modernen Krieges, eds. Stefan Aust and Cordt Schnibben
- Jarhead, Anthony Swofford
- Planet of Slums, Mike Davies
- Radical Enlightment. Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750, Jonathan I. Israel
- The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
- The Great War for Civilisation. The Conquest of the Middle East, Robert Fisk
- War Stories. Reporting in the Time of Conflict From The Crimea to Iraq, Harold Evans
- War, Journalism, and the Middle East (Audio-CD), Robert Fisk
Something to read (fiction)
- Arnon Grunberg, Fantoompijn (Phantom Pain)
- Arnon Grunberg, Tirza
- Giorgio Bassani, Dentro le mura
- Günter Grass, Die Blechtrommel
- Ian McEwan, Saturday
- Ian McEwan, The Child in Time
- Italo Calvino, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Spiders' Nests)
- John Irving, A prayer for Owen Meany
- John Irving, Until I find you
- Julia Franck, Die Mittagsfrau
- Katharina Hacker, Die Habenichtse
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Never let me go
- Kerri Hulme, The Bone People
- Philip Roth, American Pastoral
- Philip Roth, The Human Stain
- Siri Hustvedt, The Blindfold
- Siri Hustvedt, The Sorrows of an American
- Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved
Something to watch
- Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot
- The House is burning
- Så som i himmelen, As It Is in Heaven
- Little Miss Sunshine
- kurz und schmerzlos
- Il bagno turco - Hamam
- Gegen die Wand, Head-On, Duvara Karşı
- Das Leben der anderen
- Auf der anderen Seite, The Edge of Heaven, Yaşamın kıyısında