Five books suggested by my father

My father has been a book-enthusiast since ever. I remember my mother telling me one of the reasons she fell in love in the first place was because he was always carrying a pocket book with him. Sounds like a very good reason to me! So I asked him to select five books that he read and liked or got immediately hooked up on the story. Scroll down to see what father picked and, as he said they are main-stream picks with unusual stories, some written by Nobel winning writers. All of them are english translations of foreign writers.