We Need New Names - Noviolet Bulawayo - Zimbabwe Agaat - Marlene van Niekerk - South Africa The Feast of the Goat - Mario Vargas Llosa - Dominican Republic The Book of Intimate Grammar - David Grossman - Israel The Shadow King - Maaza Mengiste - Ethiopia The Sympathiser - Viet Thanh Nguyen - Vietnam The Good Muslim - Tahmima Anam - Bangladesh
Plus anything by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Orhan Pamuk (Turkey), Haruki Murakami (Japan), Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan), José Saramago (Portugal). Ingrid Srinath > On 26 Feb 2022, at 04:13, Thaths via Silklist <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I am setting myself the goal of reading at least one book from every single > country on Earth. What are some books you would recommend that are set in a > specific country? Why? > > More details: > > 1. Since I am only comfortable reading in English, it has to be an English > translation (or written in English to begin with). > > 2. Country could be interpreted loosely: Past or Present. Disputed or > recognized. > > 3. Genre no bar - It could be fiction, non-fiction, whatever. > > Thaths > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo! > _______________________________________________ > Silklist mailing list > Manage your membership here: > https://lists.digeratus.in/postorius/lists/silklist.lists.digeratus.in/ _______________________________________________ Silklist mailing list Manage your membership here: https://lists.digeratus.in/postorius/lists/silklist.lists.digeratus.in/
