Foreigner Favourite Five

[Psychosis]

Can you name five translated books you've liked a lot? Name the book, the author and his home country!:yawnb:

1)Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre, France
2)The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck, USA
3)The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, England
4)Fateless, Imre Kertész, Hungary
5)Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoievsky, Russia



By the way, I'm portuguese so i've read the translated version of all of these. ;)

[chasestalling]

Can you name five translated books you've liked a lot? Name the book, the author and his home country!:yawnb:

1)Nausea, by Jean-Paul Sartre, France
2)The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck, USA
3)The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien, England
4)Fateless, Imre Kertész, Hungary
5)Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoievsky, Russia



By the way, I'm portuguese so i've read the translated version of all of these. ;)

1) our twisted hero, by yi moon-yul, korea
2) the sailor who fell from grace of the sea, by yukio mishima, japan
3) the romance of the three kingdoms, by lou guanzhong, china
4) the past recaptured, by marcel proust, france
5) when we were orphans, by kaz ishiguro, england

by the way, i'm german... wirklich

[stlukesguild]

This list could go on for quite some way. My own personal library houses some 1000+ books translated into English from the original language. Among those coming immediately off the top of my head I might include:

1. The Divine Comedy- Dante Allighieri Italy
2. Don Quixote- Cervantes Spain
3. Les Fleuers du Mal- Charles Baudelaire France
4. The Complete Stories- Franz Kafka Czechoslovakia (written in German)
5. Invisible Cities- Italo Calvino Italy
6. Labyrinths- J.L. Borges Argentina
7. Hymns to the Night- Novalis German
8. The Collected Essays- Montaigne France
9. Selected Poetry- Fernando Pessoa Portugal
10. Beowulf- unknown Old English/Anglo Saxon