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Anna’s
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Mark wrote: "For fun -- much fun -- try Boris Akunin's mystery series -- Sherlock Holmes meets James Bond meets 19th century Russia."Great books. I've read nearly all book with Erast Fandorin.
You're exception, cause many people from western Europe and USA (even some university professors) are ignorant.
Chrissie wrote: "A great book Anya: A Novel, takes place in Poland, BUT Poland has changed shape and size so I better clarify that it starts in what is today Vilnius, Lithuania. When the book takes pl..."At least one person checked the facts.
Nancy wrote: "The End of the World in Breslau, by Marek Krajewski. (crime fiction)"Nice book. How did you like it?
White Raven, Tales of Galicia, Nine, Night: A Slavo-Germanic medical tragifarce. Maybe those titles were translated.
There is other Stasiuk's book called Going to Babadag about Poland, Romania, Albania etc. About that parts that are a little behind fast world.
Silver wrote: "The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon."They are very good.
Amy wrote: "Fado by Dalkey Archive (can't remember exact spelling of author), great book!"Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk?? Or are you talking about a book called Dalkey Archive by Irish writer, Flann O'Brien.
Great list, Silver.
Thank God there are some Polish authors other than Czesław Miłosz and Wisława Szymborska well known abroad.
- Trylogy by Henryk Sienkiewicz (With Fire and Sword, The Deluge and Fire in the Steppe)- Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Sinqollo7 wrote: "Les Misérables by Victor Hugo"Great book
Sapowski is probably the most popular Polish fantasy writer abroad. Stanisław Lem is the most popular Polish science - fiction writer in the world.
I would add Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania_ a Story of Life by Adam Mickiewicz, cause the book is set in Lithuania (author was born in Polish family in nowdays Belarus, then Russian Empire).
Loads of books coming out in USA. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales by Oliver W. Sacks
Forget You Had a Daughter: Doing Time in the Bangkok Hilton - Sandra Gregory's Story by Sandra Gregory
Arabian Nights Kamasutra (if you want of course)
