The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm

5 best books like The German Legends of the Brothers Grimm (Jacob Grimm): More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops, Celestial Bodies, The Wild Geese, دعاء الكروان, Letters to Milena

More Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
AuthorJen Campbell
ISBN1472106334
Customer (holding up a book): What’s this? The Secret Garden? Well, it’s not so secret now, is it, since they bloody well wrote a book about it!

Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops was a Sunday Times bestseller, and could be found displayed on bookshop counters up and down the country....
Celestial Bodies
AuthorJokha Alharthi
ISBN1948226944
Winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize

In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbreak; Asma, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla, who chooses to refuse all offers and await a reunion with the man she loves, who has emigrated...
AuthorŌgai Mori
ISBN0804810702
3.5 stars

It was a nice, simple read. I wish the storyline had been developed a little bit more thoroughly and I didn’t like the ambiguity of the ending. Books like this always surprise me, how women can be used as pawns. In this case, a young girl has been chosen by a well-off Japanese man to be...
Authorطه حسين
ISBN9770268100
"ولكن صوتك أيها الطائر العزيز يبلغني فتنتزعني انتزاعاً من هذا الصمت العميق، فأثب وجلة مذعورة، ويثب هو وجلاً مذعوراً، ثم لا نلبث أن يثوب إليها الأمن ويرد...
Letters to Milena
AuthorFranz Kafka
ISBN0805208852
In no other work does Kafka reveal himself as in the Letters to Milena, which begin essentially as a business correspondence but soon develop into a passionate "letter love." Milena Jesenská was a gifted and charismatic woman of twenty-three. Kafka's Czech translator, she was uniquely able to recognize...
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