I assume you’re referring to the Kafka novel. I loved it. The bureaucracy portrayed in the book is pretty much the same as modern day Germany. Ahaha, it’s utterly maddening.
I loved the way it oozed frustration and absurdity.
Last books I read are:
“Shantaram”, by Gregory David Roberts. An Australian man flees from a high-security prison and start a life anew in India, becoming a smuggler, a doctor, a criminal… but apart the action and the romanticism, is the “picture” of India it communicates that makes the book great. You feel like you were there, and you’ll be glad of it. I loved it.
Interesting fact: it’s based on Roberts’ own life (a bit fictionalized, of course, but he really escaped the Australian prison and went to India and etcetera).
4.5/5
“The Shadow Of The Wind”, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. A very interesting “detective” thriller, set in 1950s Barcelona. A young boy goes with his father in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and finds a novel that should not exist from an author who has mysteriously disappeared, and tries to uncover the truth. Let’s just say that mysteries will deploy other mysteries… and things will take bad turns…
Well written, very, very captivating and addictive, and plain fun.
4.5/5
I am now reading “The Remains Of The Day”, by Kazuo Ishiguro, but I’m still at the beginning, thus can’t say much about it…