Thanks, Ingrid! Excellent list. Here are a few that come to mind for me:
1. Australia: The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes, In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson, Leviathan: The unauthorised biography of Sydney by John Birmingham 2. Kenya: Red Strangers by Elspeth Huxley, Kenya: A Natural History by Glenn Mathews and Stephen Spawls, Going down River Road by Meja Mwangi 3. Uganda: A Girl Is A Body of Water by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi 4. Cambodia: Anything by Loung Ung Thaths On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 8:16 AM Ingrid Srinath <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
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