I am a Chinese and I recommend you Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber.
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I am a Chinese and I recommend you Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber.
You might want to have a look at "Jim Flynn's" The Torchlight List when you are looking for books for this challenge.
From Pakistan, you must read The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.
From Afghanistan : The Kite Runner :)
Suggestions:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dark Muse
Israel - Etgar Keret
Egypt - Naguib Mafouz
Argentine - Jorge Luis Borges
Peru - Mario Vargas Ilosa
Columbia - Gabriele García Marquez
Mexico - Octavio Paz
Czech Republic - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Antigua and Barbuda - Jamaica Kincaid
South Africa - Nelson Mandela
17. Kenya - Nairobi Heat by Mukoma Wa NgugiQuote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
Is anything else by Kundera worth reading?Quote:
Originally Posted by BitofEndearment
10. Portugal - Blindness by Jose SaramagoQuote:
1. Japan - Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Russia - Demons by Dostoevsky
3. France - The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas
4. England - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
5. India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
6. Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
7. Canada - World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
8. Turkey - My Name Is Red by Orhand Pamuk
9. Norway - The Wife by Sigrid Undset
11. Germany - Faust by GoetheQuote:
1. Japan - Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Russia - Demons by Dostoevsky
3. France - The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas
4. England - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
5. India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
6. Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
7. Canada - World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
8. Turkey - My Name Is Red by Orhand Pamuk
9. Norway - The Wife by Sigrid Undset
10. Portugal - Blindness by Jose Saramago
This is a cool idea! I wish I could try it myself but where I would get eighty books from foreign lands is beyond me... (My local library's pretty Eurocentric.)
I know Cavafy wrote in Greek, but he was born, lived and wrote in Alexandria in Egypt. When he was born it was part of the Ottoman Empire. When he died it was independent.Quote:
Originally Posted by mortalterror
I haven't read him, but I understand Nikos Kazantzakis is an important Greek author, author of Zorba the Greek and Christ Recrucified.
Anyone mentioned Ireland? Ulysses must be the Great Irish Novel if anything. The Real Charlotte by Sommerville and Ross is a good, although describing the protestant ascendency rather than the catholic majority, although highly critically.
I will probably be reading Ulysses for Ireland unless something else unexepcted comes up.Quote:
Originally Posted by ruggerlad
12. Spain - The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-ReverteQuote:
1. Japan - Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
2. Russia - Demons by Dostoevsky
3. France - The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Dumas
4. England - Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
5. India - Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
6. Sweden - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
7. Canada - World of Wonders by Robertson Davies
8. Turkey - My Name Is Red by Orhand Pamuk
9. Norway - The Wife by Sigrid Undset
10. Portugal - Blindness by Jose Saramago
11. Germany - Faust by Goethe
If you want to get a less popular and deeper look on Israeli literature, I would recommend reading "Past Perfect" by Yaakov Shabtai. Etgar Keret and Amos Oz are nice, but the 'Israeliness' of their books isn't intrinsic, and therefore far less interesting for someone like you (or so I think). Another interesting, not so well known book is "The Brummstein" by the Danish author Peter Adolphsen.
Good luck!
18. Afghanistan - The Patience Stone by Atiq RahimiQuote:
Originally Posted by thelastmelon
19. Turkey - The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
20. Ireland - Chamber Music by James Joyce
I see Belgium is still missing. I recommend Dimitri Verhulst- The Misfortunates if you're planning on reading a great and yet recent novel or else our greatest classic of all time: Hugo Claus- The Sorrow of Belgium