Read Red Sorghum

Oskar stops growing at three and drums through Danzig's twentieth century; Grass's Nobel.

Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.

Four generations of the Trueba family and a coup; Allende's debut.

Milkman Dead searches for gold and finds his family's past; Morrison's flying men.

Florentino waits fifty-one years, nine months and four days for Fermina; Garcia Marquez's romance.

A Roman patrician and a Christian girl under Nero; Sienkiewicz's Nobel.

A poet-doctor and Lara through the revolution and civil war; smuggled out and given the Nobel.

One ordinary day in a Siberian labour camp; the book that told the USSR about the Gulag.