Choose 10 countries and read a book by an author from each

21 Mar, 21

Brasil. The Winner Stands Alone by Paulo Coelho. 4/5. I read two books by Coelho many years ago and I expected wise phrases to become quotes and positive mindset after reading. However, it appeared to be thriller, very interesting indeed and thrill. Great book and several quotes to write down in my notebook indeed.

Diana

14 Mar, 21

Pakistan. Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid. 4/5. Good book, interesting story, unexpected plot sometimes.

Diana

Indonesia. Telegram by Putu Wijaya. 3/5. Strange book. I don't think that I wasted my time reading it though.

Diana

USA. The Rooster Bar by John Grisham. 4/5. Good book, interesting and relaxing. A kind of adventurous novel. Cultural differences? Oh, yes! When an author wanted to describe miserable, poor and wretched existence of a pauper student he mentioned that a hero lives (on his own!) in a small flat of only (what a tragedy!) 50 m2. When I was a student we lived three people on 15 m2...

Diana

INDIA. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. 5/5. I don't remember another book, in which an author rules time-frame so freely. Arundhati has outstanding writing style, I fell myself inside the book. It's drama, I normally don't fond of this genre, but this book is worth to read it. Indian coloring? Yes. Cultural differences? No, thanks, arrogance, greed and domestic violence as everywhere.

Diana

CHINA. The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin. 5/5. Science fiction novel. It's interesting and well-written, and sure I want to read all the books from the trilogy. Cultural differences, Chinese coloring? Not at all. The author described 1960s, communism upraise, and I have the feeling that change Chinese heroes' names on Russian ones, it will be undistinguished from Solzhenitsyn's works.

Diana

I have chosen 10 most populated countries in the world. It's weird that in China for instance live more than billion people, they have to read books, they have to have their own writers, there should be lots of them, just because of the scope. It should be good Chinese book, and here in Europe we know almost nothing about them. Indonesia, Bangladesh, Nigeria... Huge countries, lots of people, and it was extremely hard to find out names of their writers and even harder to find their book translated in language I understand. In fact, I didn't have much choice, so it should be a journey not only through countries and world cultures but also through literature genders.

Denise Meister

18 Oct, 20

Finland - Year of the Hare

Italy - My Brilliant Friend

Celery Don Rat

17 Sep, 20

1. KASHMIR - The Book of Gold Leaves - Mirza Waheed
2. SOUTH AFRICA - The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso
3. INDIA - The Windfall - Diksha Basu
4. NIGERIA - Stay With Me - Ayobami Adebayo
5. EGYPT - The Automobile Club of Egypt - Alaa Al Aswany
6. FRANCE - The Life of Elves - Muriel Barbery
7. MEXICO - Gods of Jade and Shadow - Silvia Moreno-Garcia
8. CHINA - The Poppy War - RF Kuang
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17 Oct, 19

5. Nigeria: My Sister the Serial Killer

11 Jun, 19

6. Australia: Nine Perfect Strangers

11 Jun, 19

7. Morocco: The Moor's Account

11 Jun, 19

8. Korea: Pachinko

5 years ago

27 Aug, 18

9. India: The God of Small Things

5 years ago

22 Jun, 18

10. Singapore: Crazy Rich Asians

5 years ago

27 May, 18

4/10- Chile- Isabel Allende (In the Midst of Winter)

25 Mar, 18

3/10- Sweden - David Lagercrantz (The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye)

05 Jan, 18

2/10- Holland - Yolanda Hadid (Believe Me)

03 Nov, 17

1/10- Germany - Jonathan Crown (Sirius)

dee

07 Sep, 17

1. Iceland - Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjon

2. The Netherlands -

3. Germany -

4. Brazil -

5. Nigeria -

6. Russia -

7. South Korea -

8. Iran -

9. Moldova -

10. New Zeland -

Laura

23 Aug, 17

1. Japan (Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami)

2. Romania (For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian)

Amélie

14 Aug, 17

2. Russia : Anna Karenine - Tolstoï

Laura Loof

20 Jun, 17

1 Belgie : De Metsiers - Hugo Claus

2 Oosterijk: Luister, Kleine Man - Wilhem Reich

3 Nederland: Saartje Tademan - Thea Beckman

4 Frankrijk: Het Geheimzinnige Eiland - Jules Verne

5 Amerika: The Movement of Stars - Amy Brill

6 Engeland: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

7 Denenmarken: Andersen's Fairy Tales - Hans Christian Andersen

8 Canada: Life of Pi - Yann Martel

9 Rusland: Nacht Wacht - Sergej Lukjanenko

10:Spanje: De Shaduw van de Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Karen M Dewey

21 May, 17

1) Australia: Cloud Street - Winton (done)

2) India: Nectar in a Sieve - Kamala Markandaya (done)

3) Norway: Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath - Sigrid Undset (done)

4) Russia: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Solzhenitsyn (done)

Spain: The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Colombia: Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Italy: Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

France: Candide - Voltaire

South Africa: Tsotsi - Athol Fugard

Philippines: Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not) - Jose Rizal

Japan: Silence - Shusaku Endo

France: Sarah's Key - de Rosnay

Japan: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Murakami

Nigeria: The Joys of Motherhood - Emecheta

China: Art of War - Tzu

China: Life and Death in Shanghai -

China: Women of the Silk

South Africa: Long Walk to Freedom

Afghanistan: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Nigeria: Things Fall Apart

Algeria: The Stranger

Ukraine: The Master and Margarita

German-Swiss: Steppenwolf

Sweden: The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo

German: All Quiet on the Western Front

Czech/France: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Sierra Leone: A Long Way Gone

England: Atonement

Chile: The House of Spirits

Iran: Reading Lolita in Tehran

France: Cyrano de Bergerac

Amélie

19 Dec, 16

1. France: La Chartreuse de Parme - Stendhal

Ale

25 Nov, 16

Brazil -- Don't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Daniel L. Everett)

France -- The Queen of the Night (Alexander Chee)

Iran -- Censoring an Iranian Love Story (Shahriar Mandanipour)

Mauritius -- Watch Them Go Down (Anand Mulloo)

Mexico -- Pedro Páramo (Juan Rulfo)

Mongolia -- Walking the Gobi: A 1,600-Mile Trek Across a Desert of Hope and Despair (Helen Thayer)

Morocco -- Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood (Fatema Mernissi)

Romania -- The Land of Green Plums (Herta Müller)

Singapore -- Crazy Rich Asians (Kevin Kwan)

South Africa -- Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)

United Kingdom -- NW (Zadie Smith)

Orion Elliott

25 Sep, 16

Angola:

Belize:

Cypress:

Lesotho:

Mongolia:

Uruguay:

Tuvalu:

Zimbabwe:

Finland:

Greece:

Amélie

05 Jul, 16

France : Stendhal

Czech Republic : Frank Kafka

Great Britain : Jane Austen

Russia : Leon Tolstoï

Chile : Pablo Neruda

USA : Kate Chopin

Japan : Junichirô Tanizaki

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River Wild

08 May, 16

1. Albert Sánchez Piñol - Pandora in the Congo (Spain)

River Wild

08 May, 16

1. Каталония - Альберт Санчес Пиньоль, Пандора в Конго

w haak

22 Apr, 16

10.The Elephant Keepers' Children, Peter Hoeg, Denmark

9.The Interpreter, Suki Kim, Korea

8.The House at Sugar Beach, Helene Cooper, Liberia

7.The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins, Zimbabwe (UK)

6.The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion, Australia

5.Doppler, Erlend Loe, Norway

4.The Year of the Flood, Margaret Atwood, Canada

3.The Housekeeper and the Professor, Yoko Ogawa, Japan

2.A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro, UK (Japan)

1.On Such a Full Sea, Chang-Rae Lee, USA (Korea)

Sarah

16 Mar, 16

1) Author born in Australia:

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

2) Author born in and book set in Barcelona, Spain:

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3) Author born in and book set in Russia:

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

4) Author born in and book set in France:

The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

5) Author born in Israel:

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

6) Author born in Zambia:

River God - Wilbur Smith

7) Author born in and book set in Canada:

Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery

8) Author born in and book set in India:

The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling

9) Author born in Germany

Inkheart - Cornelia Funke

10) Author born in New Zealand

Daughter of the Forest - Juliet Marillier

sofke

17 Sep, 15

5) Brazil: Crow Blue by Adriana Lisboa, read 06/07/2015

6) USA: Jon Krakauer's Missoula, read 17/07/2015

7) Finland: When the doves disappeared by Sofi Oksanen, read 02/08/2015

8) Japan: Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, read 11/08/2015

9) UK: Number9dream by David Mitchell, read 02/09/2015

10) France: The Brodeck Report by Philippe Claudel, read 17/09/2015

Keziah

12 Jul, 15

1 - Brazil

Felicity

21 Jun, 15

1. China - 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo

2. Mexico - Women with Big Eyes by Ángeles Mastretta

3. Poland - Scum by Isaac Bashevis Singer

4. Croatia - The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić

5. North America - Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

6. Cambodia - First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

7. Sweden - The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist

8. Japan - The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism by Naoki Higashida

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sofke

20 Jun, 15

4) New Zealand: blind night by Maurice Gee, read 17/06/2015

sofke