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The perfect book for you: levels C1-C2

The perfect book for you: levels C1-C2

VOX Cultural Digest, Issue N.11

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies… the man who never reads lives only one

George R.R. Martin

We have compiled a list of books for C1 and C2 levels, in German, French, Spanish, English and Italian. There are some great reads here for you to choose from! We hope you will enjoy it.

in German

Im Westen nichts Neues
by Erich Maria Remarque 

The book describes the German soldiers’ extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.
Die verlohrene Ehre der Katharina Blum
by Heinrich Böll 

The story deals with the sensationalism of tabloid news and the political climate of panic over Red Army Faction terrorism in the 1970s in the Federal Republic of Germany.
Drei Kameraden
by Erich Maria Remarque 

This classic novel is written in first person by the main character Robert Lohkamp, whose somewhat disillusioned outlook on life is due to his horrifying experiences in the trenches of the First World War’s French-German front.

in English

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Housseini

The first novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. Published in 2003 by Riverhead Books, it tells the story of Amir, a young boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul.
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt

The Goldfinch is a novel by the American author Donna Tartt. It won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. Published in 2013, it was Tartt’s first novel since The Little Friend in 2002. 

in Spanish

Cien años de soledad
by Gabriel García Márquez

A1967 novel by Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez that tells the multi-generational story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founded the (fictitious) town of Macondo.

in Italian

Il nome della rosa
by Umberto Eco

A historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327, and an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory.
Il barone rampante
by Italo Calvino

Described as a conte philosophique and a metaphor for independence, it tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom.

in French

Changer l’eau des fleurs
by Valérie Perrin

This is a story as poetic as it is hilarious that takes us to a place that is atypical to say the least: a cemetery located in the depths of Burgundy.
L’élégance du hérisson
by Muriel Barbery

This novel, first published in 2006, quickly became an international bestseller and has been translated into over forty languages.

Thank you for taking the time to read this issue of the VOX Cultural Digest.
Have fun reading, and learning these languages!

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