Beers & Books CCCLIV – Quiet Existences

Quiet Existences

Hermann Bang (20 April 1857 – 29 January 1912)

Nectarious Night

And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
My mouth on the dew of your thighs . . .

Beers & Books CCCLIII – Vater und Sohn unterwegs

Vater und Sohn unterwegs
Feðgar á ferð / The Old Man and His Sons

Heðin Brú (August 17, 1901 – May 18, 1987)

Faroe Islands

Beers & Books CCCLII – Arno Schmidt Reader

Arno Schmidt
The great reading book

Arno Schmidt (18 January 1914 – 3 Juni 1979)

Beers & Books CCCLI – Der Lauf der Dinge

Collected Stories

Peter Stamm * 18 January 1963

Beers & Books CCCL – Let there be Dancing

Hier wird getanzt
Her skal danses (Let There Be Dancing)

William Heinesen (15 January 1900 – 12 March 1991)

Faroe Islands

Beers & Books CCCXLIX – The Moonstone

The Moonstone

A very happy 200th Birthday, Mr. Collins.

Wilkie Collins ((8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889)

Beers & Books CCCXLVIII – The Nazi & the Barber

The Nazi & the Barber
also published as The Nazi Who Lived AS a Jew

Edgar Hilsenrath (April 2, 1926 – December 30, 2018)

Beers & Books CCCXLVII – Erna, the tree is needling

Erna, the tree is needling

Robert Gernhardt (13 December 1937 – 30 June 2006)

Beers & Books CCCXLVI – Dickens' Christmas tales

A Christmas Carol,
The Chimes,
The Cricket on the Hearth,
The Battle of Life,
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain,

Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870)

Beers & Books CCCXLV – Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848)

Beers & Books CCCXL – In the Borderland

I'd suggest:
In the Borderland

Sherko Fatah * 28 November 1964

Beers & Books CCCXXXVIII – Never let me go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro *8 November 1954

Beers & Books CCCXXXVII – German Autumn

German Autumn (1946)

Stig Dagerman (5 October 1923 – 4 November 1954)

Beers & Books CCCXXXV – Road to Brightcity

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Máirtaín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)

Beers & Books CCCXXXIV – The Swan

The Swan

Guðbergur Bergsson (16 October 1932 – 4 September 2023)

Beers & Books CCCXXXII – George Bernard Shaw

Now that we have learned
to fly the air like birds,
swim under water like fish,
we lack one thing -
to learn to live on earth as human beings.

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 –2 November 1950)

Beers & Books CCCXXXI – The Family of Pascual Duarte

The Family of Pascual Duarte

Camilo José Cela (11 May 1916 – 17 January 2002)

Beers & Books CCCXXIX – A Message to the Irish People

"It is clear that it is not man
who has created the universe
- whether you believe in God or in gods
or deny any divine presence -
man cannot alter the laws
that govern the universe
without damaging it."

Seán MacBride ( 26 January 1904 – 15 January 1988)

Beers & Books CCCXXVIII – Bobby Sands

 Bobby Sands (9 March 1954 – 5 May 1981)

I rolled over again freezing and the snow came in the window on top of my blankets. Tiocfaidh ár lá' (Our day will come), I said to myself, Tiocfaidh ár lá. [Final diary entry]