I want to second Ingrid's selection of "The Sympathiser" for Vietnam. Great novel.
For Iran - I found Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi's play "Othello in Wonderland" very surreal - it's about the conflict of cultures (Islam vs. more secular traditions vs . Western canon). Parts were tragic; parts hysterically funny. For China - Mo Yan's "Life and Death are Wearing Me Out". On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 12:36 PM Thaths via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > 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! > _______________________________________________ > Silklist mailing list > Manage your membership here: > https://lists.digeratus.in/postorius/lists/silklist.lists.digeratus.in/
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