Bless you, Ameta :) Thank you, Sruthi for your highly nepotistic recco:) :) :)
On Mon, Feb 28, 2022, 11:37 AM Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Silklist mailing list > Manage your membership here: > https://lists.digeratus.in/postorius/lists/silklist.lists.digeratus.in/
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