Foreign


The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Little Prince
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Kite Runner
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
The Stranger
The Alchemist
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
Crime and Punishment
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
Norwegian Wood
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Anna Karenina
Kafka on the Shore
Dämon Rausch by R.H. LaarssAlmas Delirantes by Luiz CebolaScience-Fiction-Pop-Art by Kai StellmannNudité by Louis de GraeveUne calligraphie des ombres - Les manuscrits d'Alejandra Piza... by Mariana Di Ció
Wrong Language Books
100 books — 1 voter
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienWild by Cheryl StrayedA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Wanderlust
1,098 books — 1,224 voters

Lalka by Bolesław PrusFerdydurke by Witold GombrowiczSolaris by Stanisław LemBlood of Elves by Andrzej SapkowskiQuo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Best Polish Books
578 books — 556 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakLife of Pi by Yann Martel
Foreign Lands
2,378 books — 2,268 voters

Peter Høeg
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
Peter Høeg, Smilla's Sense of Snow

Anthony Marra
She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency.
Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

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