Going to second Trevor Noah and Allende for sure, and recommend Death in the Andes <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94351.Death_in_the_Andes> by Mario Vargas Llosa as well, where he writes about his home country of Peru and the sendero luminoso movement.
How we survived communism and even laughed <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/278227.How_We_Survived_Communism_and_Even_Laughed> by Slavenka Drakulić is about life in Communist Yugoslavia The Kiss of the Spiderwoman by Manuel Puig, Argentina Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Equivel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz, The Dominican Republic, though he's a truly horrible sexual predator so sigh maybe not? In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez, The Dominican Republic The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17262740-the-beast> by Oscar Martinez, El Salvador The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima, Japan I also figured it would be nice to have centralised list so I made this <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AKlta-gLus2kykcMkumLirc1ERuJlmpvhshZBKICZFM/edit?usp=sharing>. Please feel free to add directly. Cordially, Ameya Nagarajan (she/her) <http://www.linkedin.com/in/ameyann> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 09:42, Sruthi Krishnan via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > Ooh. Such a lovely thread. > > The Key by Junichiro Tanizaki. A secret diary under lock and key. Of > course, the other person knows where the key is. Somehow, in my head, it is > a very Japanese novel. > > Many roads through paradise - an anthology of Sri Lankan literature, > edited by Shyam Selvadurai (yes, he wrote Funny Boy). It is superlative in > the way it curates such diverse rooted voices all in one tight book. > > Salt and saffron - Kamila Shamsie. A friend gave me this book and said > read, and I obeyed, and loved it. A Pakistani novel. > > Women who forgot to invent Facebook and other stories by Nisha Susan - it > is the India I know. (Hi, Nisha :) ) > > Singing Emptiness: Kumar Gandharva and Kabir - chumma adding this book to > list, just because it is Monday. > > Hoping for a better week, > Sruthi > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2022, 04:12 john--- via Silklist, < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > <[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/ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Silklist mailing list > Manage your membership here: > https://lists.digeratus.in/postorius/lists/silklist.lists.digeratus.in/
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