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message 1: by RG (new)

RG (pascualduarte) | 36 comments Assuming I stick only to books presently on my shelves (admittedly, a big assumption) my list should look something like this:

Argentina:
Shantytown - Cesar Aira
Steps under Water: A Novel - Alicia Kozameh
Patient - Ana Maria Shua

Bangladesh:
The Good Muslim - Tahmima Anam
Belgium:
Hygiene and the Assassin - Amelie Nothomb
Brazil:
An Invincible Memory - João Ubaldo Ribeiro
The Centaur in the Garden - Moacyr Scliar

Chile:
Custody of the Eyes - Diamela Eltit
China:
Red Sorghum - Mo Yan
Colombia:
Good Offices - Evelio Rosero
The Informers - Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Cuba:
Days of Awe - Achy Obejas

Egypt:
The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif
England:
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Jeanette Winterson
Estonia:
Diary of a Blood Donor - Mati Unt

France:
The White Notebook - Andre Gide

Guadeloupe:
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?: A Fantastical Tale - Maryse Conde
Guatemala:
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War - Greg Grandin
Guyana:
The Sly Company of People Who Care: A Novel - Rahul Bhattacharya

Iceland:
From the Mouth of the Whale - Sjon
India:
Between the Assassinations - Aravind Adiga
Animal's People - Indra Sinha
Indonesia:
It's Not an All Night Fair - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Jamaica:
The Book of Night Women - Marlon James
Japan:
The Ark Sakura - Kobo Abe
The Diving Pool: Three Novellas - Yoko Ogawa

Latvia:
High Tide - Inga Abele
Lebanon:
The Story of Zahra - Hanan Al-Shaykh
Lithuania:
Those Whom I Would Like to Meet Again - Giedra Radvilaviciute

Malaysia:
The Harmony Silk Factory - Tash Aw
Mexico:
The Book of Lamentations - Rosario Castellanos
Happy Families: Stories - Carlos Fuentes
Morocco:
A Palace in the Old Village - Tahar Ben Jelloun

Nicaragua:
The Inhabited Woman - Gioconda Belli
Nigeria:
GraceLand - Chris Abani

Pakistan:
Moth Smoke - Mohsin Hamid
Peru:
A World for Julius - Alfredo Bryce Echenique
Philipines:
But for the Lovers - Wilfrido D. Nolledo
Portugal:
The Elephant's Journey - Jose Saramago

Romania:
Vain Art of the Fugue - Dumitru Tsepeneag
Russia:
Day of the Oprichnik - Vladimir Sorokin

Sierra Leone:
Ancestor Stones - Aminatta Forna
Spain:
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes in History and Imagination - Javier Cercas
The Back Room - Carmen Martin Gaite
South Africa:
The Madonna of Excelsior - Zakes Mda
South Korea:
House of the Winds - Mia Yun
Sri Lanka:
Reef - Romesh Gunesekera

Vietnam:
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam - Bao Ninh


message 2: by Val (new)

Val You have several good ones there Rudolfo
and some I have never heard of, so will go and look up.


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