John Irving and Colum McCann. I shall remember their names until my dying days.
My friend Anna’s son is spending a year of high school in the U.S. and she asked me what books a young German should read to understand America, and so I was drawing up a list: Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Morrison’s Beloved, and so on. And then I got stuck.
Who wrote A Prayer for Owen Meany? Who wrote Let the Great World Spin?
