Na aanleiding van ’n manjifieke praatjie deur Willie Burger oor sy boek, Die wêreld van die storie, wat onlangs verskyn het (’n moet-lees), en sy rubriek dié week oor letterkundepryse het ons gesels oor boeke wat jou lewe beïnvloed of verander het, of jou gunstelinge is omdat dit so briljant geskryf is.
Hier is ’n dosyn van my gunstelinge:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez The Cellist of Sarajevo – Steven Galloway The Piano Shop on the Left Bank – Thad Carhart Die Reise nach Sofia – Angelika Schrobsdorff Das Parfüm – Patrick Süskind The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Záfon A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini Life of Pi – Yann Martel The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie The House by the Lake – Thomas Harding
Watter boeke is op jou lys?
Dané Me before you – Jojo Moyes
The Longest Ride – Nicholas Sparks
Koors – Deon Meyer
Je’Maine The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
The Firm – John Grisham
Zerilda The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kando
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo-reeks – Stieg Larsson
Zerelda Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
Cry the beloved country – Alan Paton
The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Wegkomkans – Marita van der Vyver
Margot My brilliant Friend – Elena Ferrante
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
The Prodigal Summer – Barbara Kingsolver
Christa A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini
Die groot verlange – Leon Rousseau
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared – Jonas Johansson
Man van Cirene – FA Venter
Anlie ’n Oomblik in die wind – André P Brink
Onse Vaders – Karin Brynard
Die Onaantasbares – Steve Hofmeyr
Natasha Gerald’s Game – Stephen King
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas – John Boyne
Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
Eldaleen is die redakteur van Vrouekeur.