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Help Wanted for an Olympic Challenge

Egypt and Turkey

I see you have a Mahfouz for Egypt, but I really liked Palace Walk. It is set in Cairo about the time of World War I and really gives an inside look at the family culture.

Also, for Turkey, how about Snow by Orhan Pamuk.

For Hungary, you want Fateless (or Fatelessness) by Imre Kertez.

For Chile, The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende.

(Forgive all misspellings of author names.)
 
silverseason said:
I see you have a Mahfouz for Egypt, but I really liked Palace Walk. It is set in Cairo about the time of World War I and really gives an inside look at the family culture.

Also, for Turkey, how about Snow by Orhan Pamuk.

For Hungary, you want Fateless (or Fatelessness) by Imre Kertez.

For Chile, The House of the Spirits by Isabelle Allende.

(Forgive all misspellings of author names.)
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I want to read Pamuk, and House of Spirits is patiently waiting on my shelves. I'm sure I'll have the same reaction to it that I had to Daughter of Fortune and Anna Karenina: I'll be kicking myself for leaving it unread so long:rolleyes: BTW-don't worry about mispelled names...I've mangled more innocent writer's names in the last year and a half....if I could see better I might stand a fighting chance:p
 
Kenny Shovel said:
If I remember correctly you liked Silence by Shusaku Endo. If so, I suspect you will like Wonderful Fool by the same author.
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I'll have to read this one too. Silence was amazingly well written. Thanks for the heads up. I'm currently reading The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, by Chingiz Aitmatov http://tinyurl.com/2cqe2y
It's pretty good, but I'm not making great progress..probably due to excessive crocheting for Christmas, not any fault on the author's part. Thanks again!
 
I'm finishing up my first world book tour this year, with just these countries left:
Comoros
Guinea-Bissau-History and hunger in West Africa : food production and entitlement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (Save me people!)
Mali-The fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampaté Ba
Mauritania
Mauritius-The rape of Sita by Lindsey Collen
Niger
Sao Tome & Principe
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Togo
Zambia

Bhutan-Beyond the sky and the earth : a journey into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
Brunei Darussalem
Kuwait
Lebanon
Maldives
Oman
Timor-Leste
Turkmenistan
United Arab Emirates

Azerbaijan
Hungary
Liechtenstein
Malta
Netherlands

British Virgin Islands
Netherland Antilles
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
Virgin Islands


The titles I've shown are ones I have requested from the library. I hope you all have ideas for any of these remaining countries.
 
abecedarian said:
Lebanon
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You've just read I, The Divine by Rabih Alameddine. That should count for Lebanon. Another, I suppose, is Nadia Awar Jarrar's Dreams Of Water, which jumps between Lebanon and London.

Hungary
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Hungary, there's loads of options. Magda Szabo, Sandor Marai, Arthur Koestler, Antal Szerb, and Gyula Krudy. But you've already read Imre Kertesz. So that counts.
 
Stewart said:
You've just read I, The Divine by Rabih Alameddine. That should count for Lebanon. Another, I suppose, is Nadia Awar Jarrar's Dreams Of Water, which jumps between Lebanon and London.


Hungary, there's loads of options. Magda Szabo, Sandor Marai, Arthur Koestler, Antal Szerb, and Gyula Krudy. But you've already read Imre Kertesz. So that counts.
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I don't mind overlap anyway. I'm so near the end of the list of places I 'have to cover,' I'm taking notes of places to revisit-specially for cases where I wasn't enthralled with the first entry. I figure there's gold out there yet! I doubt I'll ever revert to such a US- centered reading lifestyle.
 
Ta-Da! I'm done! Here's the final list:

Africa

  • Algeria ~ A Sister to Scheherazade, Assia Djebar
  • Angola ~ The Return Of The Water Spirit, Pepetela
  • Benin ~ Fools,Thieves and Other Dreamers, Flourent Couoa-Zotti
  • Botswana ~ The Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith
  • Burkina Faso ~ Women Writing Africa:W. Africa and the Sahel, Esi Sutherland (Ed.)
  • Burundi ~ Unlocking Horns: Forgiveness & Reconciliation in Burundi, David Niyenzema
  • Cameroon ~ Houseboy, Ferdinand Oyono
  • Cape Verde Islands ~ The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araujo, Germano Almeida
  • Central African Republic ~ African Tales: Folklore of the Central African Republic, Polly Strong (trans.)
  • Chad ~ Chad:A Nation in Search of its Future, Mario Joachim Azevedo
  • Comoros ~ Traveller’s Survival Kit: Madagascar and Comoros
  • Congo ~ The Antipeople, Sony Labou Tansi
  • Côte d'Ivoire ~ As the Crow Flies, Veronique Tadjo
  • D.R. Congo ~ The Fire of Origins, Emmanuel Dongala
  • Djibouti ~ The Seascape Painter and the Wind Drinker fron Land without Shadows, Abdourahman A. Waberi
  • Egypt ~ Children of the Alley, Naguib Mahfouz
  • Equatorial Guinea ~ Small is Not Always Beautiful, Max Leniger-Gomez
  • Eritrea ~ We Have Our Voice:Selected Poems, Reesom Haile
  • Ethiopia ~ Notes from the Hyena's Belly : An Ethiopian Boyhood, Nega Mezlekia
  • Gabon ~ Batoula, Rene Maran
  • Gambia ~ The Second Time Around, Lenrie Peters
  • Ghana ~ Dilemma of a Ghost and Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo
  • Guinea ~ The Dark Child, Camara Laye
  • Guinea-Bissau ~ History and Hunger in West Africa, Laura Bigman
  • Kenya ~ Land Without Thunder, Grace Ogot
  • Lesotho ~ Blanket Boy's Moon, Peter Lanham, A. S. Mopeli-Paulus
  • Liberia ~ Liberian Writing, Horst Erdmann Verlag (Ed.)
  • Libya ~ The Bleeding of the Stone, Ibrahim Al-Koni
  • Madagascar ~ Translations from the Night, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo
  • Malawi ~ Skipping without Ropes, Jack Mapanje
  • Mali ~ The Fortunes of Wangrin, Amadou Hampate Ba
  • Mauritania ~ Lonely Planet: Mauritania and Seychelles; Adventures in Africa, Gianni Calati
  • Mauritius ~ The Rape of Sita, Lindsey Collen
  • Morocco ~ Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Fatima Mernissi
  • Mozambique ~ Voices Made Night, Mia Cuoto
  • Namibia ~ The Orphan Calf and the Magical Cheetah: Cheetah Poems, Essays, and Illustrations by Namibian People, Stephen De Vincent
  • Niger ~ New Poets of West Africa (Handy Dogs), Oumarou Watta
  • Nigeria ~ Things Fall Apart, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Rwanda ~ Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza
  • Sao Tome and Principe ~ Women Writing Africa:W. Africa and the Sahel, Esi Sutherland (Ed.)
  • Senegal ~ From the Depths of a Well, from Fools, Thieves and Other Dreamers, Seydi
  • Seychelles ~ Lonely Planet: Mauritania and Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone ~ Women Writing Africa:W. Africa and the Sahel, Esi Sutherland (Ed.)
  • Somalia ~ From a Crooked Rib, Nuruddin Farah
  • South Africa ~ Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
  • Sudan ~ The Wedding of Zein, Tayeb Salih
  • Swaziland ~ Nest in a Cage, Foluke Ogunleye
  • Togo ~ African in Greenland, Tete-Michel Kpomassie
  • Tunisia ~ Behind Closed Doors: Women’s Oral Narratives in Tunis, Monia Hejaiej
  • Uganda ~ Abyssinian Chronicles, Moses Isegawa
  • Tanzania ~ Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!, Tololwa M. Mollel
  • Zambia ~ Women Writing Africa: Eastern Region, Amandina Lihamba (Ed.)
  • Zimbabwe ~ House of Hunger, Dambudzo Marechera


Oceania

  • American Samoa ~ The Birth & Death of the Miracle Man, Albert Wendt
  • Australia ~ Dirt Music, Tim Winton
  • Cook Islands ~ The Book Of Puka-Puka, Robert D. Frisbie
  • Micronesia ~ Lonely Planet South Pacific & Micronesia
  • Fiji ~ Lonely Planet South Pacific & Micronesia
  • Guam ~ Lonely Planet South Pacific & Micronesia
  • Kiribati ~ The Sex Lives of Cannibals : Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific, J. Maarten Troost
  • Marshall Islands ~ Lonely Planet South Pacific and Micronesia
  • Nauru ~ Lonely Planet South Pacific and Micronesia
  • New Zealand ~ Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera & Henry Campbell;
  • New Zealand ~ The Redemption of Elsdon Bird, Noel Virtue
  • Palau ~ Lonely Planet South Pacific and Micronesia
  • Papua New Guinea ~ Four Corners, Kira Salak
  • Samoa ~ They Who Do Not Grieve, Sia Figiel
  • Solomon Islands ~ Two Hill Diggers, Geralda Kauhoroasiva
  • Tonga ~ Langakali, Konai Thaman
  • Tuvalu ~ Lonely Planet South Pacific and Micronesia
  • Vanuatu ~ Lonely Planet South Pacific and Micronesia

Asia

  • Afghanistan ~ A Bed of Red Flowers, Nelofer Pazira
  • Bahrain ~ Quixotiq, Ali Al Saeed
  • Bangladesh ~ Janani, Saokata Osamana
  • Bhutan ~ Beyond Earth and Sky: Journey into Bhutan, Jamie Zeppa
  • Brunei Darussalam ~ A History of Brunei, Graham E. Saunders
  • Cambodia ~ First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung
  • Chinese Taipei ~ The Butcher's Wife, Li Ang
  • North Korea ~ Land of Exile: Contemporary Korean Fiction, Marshall R. Pihl (Ed.)
  • Hong Kong ~ Hong Kong Collage: Contemporary Stories and Writing, Martha D.Y. Cheung
  • India ~ Shalimar the Clown, Salmaan Rushdie;
  • India ~ A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
  • Indonesia ~ Diverse Lives: Contemporary Stories of Indonesia, Jeanette Lingard (Ed.)
  • Iraq ~ Absent, Betool Khedairi
  • Iran ~ Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi
  • Japan ~ The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea, Yukio Mishima
  • Japan ~ A Grain of Wheat, Tohiko Kagawa
  • Japan ~ Shipwrecks, Akira Yoshimura
  • Jordan ~ Pillars of Salt, Fadia Faqir
  • Kazakhstan ~ Night, Sergei Lukyanenko
  • South Korea ~ Korea Unmasked, Won-bok Rhie
  • Kuwait ~ Lonely Planet: Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar
  • Kyrgyzstan ~ The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, Chingiz Aitmatov
  • Laos ~ Mother's Beloved, Bnounyavong Outhine
  • Lebanon ~ The Stone Of Laughter, Hoda Barakat;
  • Lebanon ~ I, The Divine, Rabih Alameddine
  • Malaysia ~ The Rice Mother, Rani Manicka
  • Maldives ~ Maldives: Winds of Change in an Atoll State, Vrmilla Phadris
  • Mongolia ~ Ancient Splendor (The Best of Mongolian Poetry), Mend-Ooyo Gombojav
  • Myanmar ~ Freedom From Fear, Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Nepal ~ Arresting God in Katmandu, Samrat Upradhyay
  • Pakistan ~ Broken Verses, Kamilla Shamsie
  • Palestine ~ Arab Women: Between Defiance & Restraint, Suha Sabbagh (Ed.)
  • China ~ Bound Feet and Western Dress, Pang Mei Natasha Chang
  • Philippines ~ Comfort Women, Maria Rosa Hanson
  • Qatar ~ Lonely Planet: Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar
  • Saudi Arabia ~ Inside the Kingdom : My Life in Saudi Arabia, Carmen Bin Ladin
  • Singapore ~ The Bondmaid, Catherine Lim
  • Sri Lanka ~ Reef, Romesh Guneskera
  • Syrian ~ Fragments of Memory, Hanna Mina
  • Tajikistan ~ Hurramabad, Andrei Volas
  • Thailand ~ Sightseeing, Rattawut Laphcharoensap
  • East Timor ~ East Timor:Island in Conflict, Taro McGuinn
  • Turkmenistan ~ Soul, Andrei Platonov
  • United Arab Emirates ~ Insight Guide: Oman and the UAE
  • Uzbekistan ~ The Railway, Hamid Ismailov
  • Vietnam ~ Crossing the River, Nguyen Huy Thiep
  • Yemen ~ The Hostage, Zayd Mutee' Dammaj

Europe

  • Albania ~ Broken April, Ismail Kadare
  • Andorra ~ Andorra, Michèle Gazier (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Armenia ~ Efronia: An Armenian Love Story, Stina Katchadorian
  • Austria ~ A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Peter Handke
  • Azerbaijan ~ Ali and Nino : A Love Story, Kurban Said
  • Belarus ~ Pack of Wolves, Vasil Bykov, Lynn Solotaroff
  • Belgium ~ In the Shadow of the Ark, Anne Provoost
  • Belgium ~ Marcel, Erwin Mortier
  • Bosnia-Herzegovina ~ Zlata's Diary : A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo, Zlata Filipovic
  • Bulgaria ~ Keystone, Blaga Dimitrova (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Croatia ~ Hawaii, Vladinir Arsenijevic (from Croatian Nights)
  • Cyprus ~ The Voice of Cyprus: An Anthology of Cypriot Literature, Andonis Decavalles (Ed.)
  • Czech Republic ~ Love and Garbage, Ivan Klima
  • Czech Republic ~ Letters to Olga, Vaclav Havel
  • Denmark ~ Borderliners, Peter Hoeg
  • Denmark ~ Miss Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Peter Hoeg
  • Estonia ~ The Wandering Border, Jaan Kaplinski (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Estonia ~ The Compromise, Sergei Dovlatov
  • Finland ~ Troll, Johanna Sinisalo
  • Macedonia ~ Not a Day Without Order, Dimitar Solev (from Caesarean Cut-Macedonian Short Stories)
  • France ~ Have Mercy on Us All, Fred Vargas
  • France ~ The Devil in the Flesh, Raymond Radiguet
  • France ~ Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
  • Georgia ~ The Winter Queen, Boris Akunin
  • Germany ~ The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
  • Great Britain ~ Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell, Susanna Clarke
  • Greece ~ The Suspended Step of the Stork, Theo Angelopoulos (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Greece ~ The Seventh Elephant, Alexis Stamatis
  • Hungary ~ Fateless, Imre Kertesz
  • Iceland ~ The Fish Can Sing, Halldor Laxness
  • Ireland ~ The Barrytown Trilogy, Roddy Doyle
  • Ireland ~ Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
  • Ireland ~ Suffer the Children, Mary Rafftery
  • Ireland ~ Ireland, Frank Delaney
  • Israel ~ Israel, Palestine and Peace, Amos Oz
  • Italy ~ The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, Umberto Eco
  • Italy ~ Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco
  • Latvia ~ What do a Bridge and a Falling Star Have in Common, Vizma Belsevica (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Liechtenstein ~ Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe, Thomas Eccard
  • Lithuania ~ Personal Borders, Sarunas Bartas (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Luxembourg ~ About a Bridge, Guy Rewenig (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Malta ~ Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe, Thomas Eccard
  • Montenegro ~ A Stranger's Supper, Zorka Milich
  • Monaco ~ Zubric’s Rock, Robert Eringer
  • Netherlands ~ Dekok and the Begging Death, A.C. Baantje
  • Norway ~ The Woman at the Pump, Knut Hamsun
  • Norway ~ The Half Brother, Lars Saabye Christensen
  • Poland ~ Death in Danzig, Stefan Chwin
  • Portugal ~ Relic, Eca De Quieroz
  • Moldova ~ Gateway to Transfiguration, Vaitalie Ciobanu (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Romania ~ The Second Life, Carmen Firan
  • Russia ~ The First Circle, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Russia ~ Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • Russia ~ A Dream in Polar Fog, Yuri Rythkheu
  • San Marino ~ Secrets of the Seven Smallest States of Europe, Thomas Eccard
  • Serbia ~ Relief, Borivoj Radakovic (from Croatian Nights)
  • Serbia ~ A Tomb for Boris Davidovich, Danilo Kis
  • Serbia ~ Time Gifts, Zoran Zivkovic
  • Slovakia ~ Regrets, Martin Simecka (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Slovenia ~ Border Dog, Brina Svit (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Spain ~ Against Babel, Juan Manuel de Prada (from Views from the Bridge of Europe)
  • Spain ~ The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Spain ~ The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez Reverte
  • Spain ~ The Last Cato, Matilde Asensi
  • Sweden ~ Barabbas, Par Lagerkvist
  • Switzerland ~ The Scorpion Fish, Nicolas Bouvier
  • Turkey ~ The Sea Crossed Fisherman, Yashar Kemel
  • Ukraine ~ Death And The Penguin, Andrey Kurkov

America

  • Antigua and Barbuda ~ Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid
  • Argentina ~ The Wandering Unicorn, Manuel M. Lainez
  • Aruba ~ Antenna, Rosabelle Illes
  • Bahamas ~ The 99 Cent Breakfast, Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
  • Barbados ~ In the Country of My Skin, George Lamming
  • Belize ~ The Entertainment, Zee Edgell (from Stories from Blue Latitudes)
  • Belize ~ Green Can and Juicy Flotsam, Carmen Esteves (Ed.)
  • Bermuda ~ Fodor’s Bermuda
  • Bolivia ~ The Fat Man From La Paz, Rosario Santos (Ed.)
  • Brazil ~ Esau and Jacob, Joachim Machado
  • British Virgin Islands ~ Adventure Guide: Virgin Islands, Lyn. MJ Sullivan
  • Canada ~ Lines on the Water, David Adams Richards
  • Canada ~ Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
  • Canada ~ Widdershins, Charles deLint
  • Canada ~ The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston
  • Cayman Islands ~ Adventure Guide:Cayman Islands, Petra Permenter
  • Chile ~ Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende
  • Colombia ~ The Secrets of Colombian Cooking, Patricia McCausland Gallo
  • Costa Rica ~ When New Flowers Bloomed, Enrique Jamarillo Levi (Ed.)
  • Cuba ~ Dreaming in Cuban, Christina Garcia
  • Dominica ~ Dominica and Revolt: Tales of the Antilles, Marcella Breton (Ed.)
  • Dominican Republic ~ In the Time of the Butterflies, Julia Alvarez
  • Ecuador ~ Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City, Alicia Cossio
  • El Salvador ~ The Ways of Rain and Other Poems, Hugo Lindo
  • Grenada ~ Lady in a Boat, Merle Collins
  • Guatemala ~ The Long Night of White Chickens, Francisco Goldman
  • Guyana ~ The Ventriloquist’s Tale, Pauline Melville
  • Haiti ~ Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat
  • Honduras ~ The Big Banana, Roberto Quesada
  • Jamaica ~ The Store of a Million Items
  • Mexico ~ Like Water For Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
  • Netherlands Antilles ~ Double Play, Frank Martinus Arion
  • Nicaragua ~ The Country Under My Skin : A Memoir of Love and War, Gioconda Belli
  • Panama ~ When New Flowers Bloomed, Enrique Jamarillo Levi (Ed.)
  • Paraguay ~ I, the Supreme, Augusto Roa Bastos
  • Peru ~ Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Puerto Rico ~ House on the Lagoon, Rosario Ferre
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis ~ Crossing the River, Caryl Phillips
  • Saint Lucia ~ The Bounty, Derek Walcott
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ~ St. Vincent and the Grenadines: A Plural Country, Dana Jenkins and Jill Bobrow
  • Suriname ~ Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam, ed. By Carmen Esteves
  • Trinidad and Tobago ~ Stories From Blue Latitudes, Elizabeth Nunez (Ed.)
  • United States of America ~ Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
  • Uruguay ~ The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories, Horacio Quiroga
  • Venezuela ~ The Red Lances, Arturo Uslar Pietri
  • Virgin Islands ~ Adventure Guide: Virgin Islands, Lyn. MJ Sullivan
 
ABC, at your request I've tidied up your post. I would question whether you are complete as there's nothing there for Laos. Oh, and Nigeria is questionable: I take it you read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and something by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?

A lot of interesting titles in there, loads more I've never heard of and more that look borne of the frustration of not finding anything fiction/poetry-wise from the countries. It's only regrettable that, out of so many books, you mentioned so few of them. I know I would have asked you about the likes of Yasher Kemal's The Sea Crossed Fisherman and Tete-Michel Kpomassie's An African In Greenland, which I recently bought.
 
ABC, that is completely awesome!
No matter how you stack it, that is a l-o-n-g list!
Super-Super-Congratulations! /all-bowing-down smilie goes here/ :flowers:
 
Stewart said:
ABC, at your request I've tidied up your post. I would question whether you are complete as there's nothing there for Laos. Oh, and Nigeria is questionable: I take it you read Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and something by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?

A lot of interesting titles in there, loads more I've never heard of and more that look borne of the frustration of not finding anything fiction/poetry-wise from the countries. It's only regrettable that, out of so many books, you mentioned so few of them. I know I would have asked you about the likes of Yasher Kemal's The Sea Crossed Fisherman and Tete-Michel Kpomassie's An African In Greenland, which I recently bought.
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Good thing you said something about Laos. I knew I'd read a story for it, but couldn't find it for awhile.. I read Mother's Beloved by Bnounyavong Outhine http://www.seasite.niu.edu/lao/LaoLiterature/shortstories/laoshortstory.htm

Achebe is questionable for Nigeria? There's plenty to choose from for Nigeria, I think...

The Sea Crossed Fisherman and An African in Greenland were both disappointments. Sea Crossed had great imagery, but was so disjointed I felt uncomfortable. African in Greenland was just dull.


We can talk more later....:)
 
Good going abece! That list is not only Olympian, it's Herculean!

Did you also give ratings to the list?
 
abecedarian said:
African in Greenland was just dull.
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Oh, I'm so looking forward to it now. On the plus side, it's a NYRB Edition and they are great shelf candy.

Will you continue to read around the world or dive into plenty of stuff you've been wanting to catch up on?
 
Stewart said:
Oh, I'm so looking forward to it now. On the plus side, it's a NYRB Edition and they are great shelf candy.

Will you continue to read around the world or dive into plenty of stuff you've been wanting to catch up on?
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There's a lot I've been wanting to catch up on, but if you could see my amazon wishlist, you'd notice right away that there's a lot of world literature waiting in the wings..Remember the story of the Five Chinese Brothers? The brother who could swallow the sea had a little friend who was supposed to gather the treasures near the shore.. but the kid saw even more wonderous things just a little farther out, and he kept getting farther from shore, and meanwhile the brother got too tired... and finally lost control and spit the sea back, drowning the greedy kid....I feel like that kid.

I'm referring to your listing:


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  • Nigeria ~ Things Fall Apart, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

:blush: Hee hee...I got a little confused trying to cross reference my handwritten lists with the list I was trying to compile online...Adichie DOES begin with the letter "A":whistling:
Feel Free to wave your magical moderator's wand and fix that...please!
 
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