In the book "Nobody in the World", Hisham Matar takes the reader to a country where no other book has taken me: Libya. Suleiman grows up in Tripoli in the 1970s, under the Gaddafi regime. It is a totalitarian state, where your neighbour can be an "antenna".
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The House of Yacoubian, by Alaa Al-Aswany is a fascinating story! In the heart of Cairo there is a house built in European style in the 1930s. Back then, millionaires and ministers lived here. Now it is a blissful mix of people.
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"The Dream", by Harry Bernstein, is a book I can definitely recommend! Bernstein made his debut as a writer at the age of 95 with the book "The Invisible Wall". This is his second novel in which he tells the story of how, at the age of ten, he emigrated with his poor Jewish family from England to the United States.
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City of Thieves by David Benioff held me in a firm grip from the first page to the last. The fact that the book was read in a cold hotel room in the middle of the Ukrainian winter did not detract from the feeling, but it is certainly just as good to read during our cold Swedish winter!
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