International Reads discussion

Hey guys,

Sorry for the long absence!! Let's get back on track for August and start nominating!!

Each person can nominate TWO books and second TWO books. there is a more detailed list of hos the rules work in another thread if you want to check them out.

So we will have read by the start of August:

The Slynx- Russian
Snow Country- Japanese
Hunger - Norwegian
The Colonel - Iranian
Half of a Yellow Sun - Nigerian.
The House of the Spirits - Chilean
In the Shadow of the Banyan - Cambodian

We're trying not to repeat countries so please try to nominate books from countries that we have not read! :)

Thank you and happy nominating!!

(this nomination thread will be open until 14th July 12pm BST then we'll go to voting)

I'm going to start my nominating two novels from countries that I have been hoping we'd read.

Firstly I'd like to nominate an Indian Novel The Space Between Us as it sounds like such a lovely story and one I've had on my to read list for a long time now.

Secondly I'd like to nominate a Taiwanese novel The Man with the Compound Eyes - this is a newish release that I'm desperate to read.

I'd like to nominate The Unbearable Lightness of Being as well as a longer one, but one I've really been dying to read. Cathedral of the Sea. (Spain and Czechoslovakia)

I wanna second The Man with the Compound Eyes

I second The Man with the Compound Eyes. (Oh lord, that cover)

The Man with the Compound Eyes! :)))

I nominate Big Breasts, Wide Hips by Mo Yan (Chinese)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I'd like to nominate "The hour of the star", by Clarice Lispector (from Brazil ;-)), and Tirza, by Arnon Grunberg (from the Netherlands). Hope you enjoy :-)

I'd like to nominate two novels by portuguese authors:
The Inquisitors' Manual, by António Lobo Antunes
and
Death with Interruptions, by José Saramago

I second The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar.

I nominate Trumpet by Jackie Kay (Scotland) and Zoo City by Lauren Beukes (South Africa).

I second the space between us!

I'll second The Man with the Compound Eyes.

I second Big Breasts, Wide Hips by Mo Yan (Chinese).

I also nominate Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado (Brazil) and Changes A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana).

I second The Man with the Compound Eyes and The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years.

I'd like to nominate The Blue Fox by Sjón (Iceland) and The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (Austraila).

I second The Man with the Compound Eyes

I nominate The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
by Yukio Mishima
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Wow! There are so many great nominations already. I'd like to second The sailor who fell from grace with the sea and Death with interruptions.

First time, so let's see if I can do this right!
I nominate Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh (India)

I enthusiastically second The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea :)

I want to second The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being :)

THE SAILOR WHO FELL FROM GRACE WITH THE SEA! Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah!

I'll nominate The Post-Office Girl byStefan Zweig and The Summer Book by Tove Jansson.

second The sailor who fell from grace with the sea

"The Man with the Compound Eyes" sounds amazing. I also would like to add A Very Long Engagement (France) and Jia (North Korea) to the nomination list.

Don't we already have a Japanese book though?

Stephanie - oh, shoot, yes we (you, I guess, I joined the group recently) have. Hmph. Well, in that case I second The Man with the Compound Eyes and The Unbearable Lightness of Being!

I nominate The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)
and Broken April by Ismail Kadaré (Albania).

I second Trumpet.

I second The Man With the Compound Eyes

I second The Farming of The Bones!

We shouldn't be nominating books from countries we've already read.

I second The Blue Fox by Sjón (Iceland).

I second The Summer Book

I would like to nominate The Genizah at the House of Shepher by Tamar Yellin (Israel) and Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat (Haiti).

I would like to second Cathedral of the Sea.

I would like to second The Farming of Bones.

Stéphanie wrote: "Don't we already have a Japanese book though?"
Whoops! I'd like to change my second to Trumpet.

I second Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh.

I also second The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

I nominate The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Ándric (Serbo-Croatian).

I second Death With Interruptions/Death at Intervals by José Saramago, and Kundera's Unbearable Lightness of Being.

I nominate The Namesake and second The Space Between Us. (Sorry I can't make the little links, Goodreads Mobile is not that sophisticated!) I'm excited to read with you guys for the first time.

I'd like to second, "Big Breasts, Wide Hips" by Mo Yan and "The Blue Fox" by Sjon.

I will second The Thorn Birds - that one has been on my TBR for years, literally.

THE THOOOOOOOOORN BIRDS!!!!!!!!

I second The Summer Book and also The Namesake :)

I second The Post-Office Girl!

I nominate A Fine Balance (India)
I second The Farming of Bones, and Zoo City.

I've just started reading The Post-Office Girl,
very good so far!

I second 'My Name is Red' and 'The Day Lasts more than a Hundred Years'.