For Senegal,
Xala, by Ousmane Sembène
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/574425.Xala
jrs
On 2022-02-27 14:32, Sean Doyle via Silklist wrote:
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
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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
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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
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