Larger than Life is a 1960 novel by the Italian writer Dino Buzzati. It tells the story of a scientist who becomes entangled with a large electronic machine in which the woman he loves is reincarnated.
Carlos Manzano Book order (chronological)
Letter to my mother
- 64 pages
- 3 hours of reading
Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece.
The English Patient
- 336 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.