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dely wrote: "Let's see if I have understood everything correctly.For now I add just the books read this year. If I make something wrong please tell me.
This year I was in:
Italy: [book:Il sangue del Sud. An..."
You are off to a great start! You can go back and count books you have read as far back as last October.
Fine!So I add:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Unites States)
Lifting the Wheel of Karma by Paul H. Magid (Montana)
The Trial by Franz Kafka (Germany)
Justine by Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade (France)
The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Russia)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (Russia)
The Prophet and The Garden Of The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (I don't remember where it is set! Middle-east)
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Spain)
The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace by Leonid Solovyov (somewhere in the middle-east)
Scarface, una storia violenta by Daniele Cavagna (Italy) there is no translation of this book.
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol (Russia)
regions: 4
countries: 12
books read: 22 (though there are some books I have read in two volumes, I am counting only one)
You must help me with the counting because I don't know the states of America :/
dely wrote: "Fine!So I add:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Unites States)
Lifting the Wheel of Karma by Paul H. Magid (Montana)
The Trial ..."
Dely, I have counted The Prophet as Lebanon and The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace as Turkmenistan. You can also count The Trial as Czech Republic, if you like, since you already have a book set in Germany..
Ok, thanks.The Prophet hasn't a real setting, it is more philosophycal. Can I however put Lebanon as country?
At the end (but I haven't had time to edit) I have found Uzbekistan for The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin.
I leave Germany for The Trial because it is set in Germany; is it set also in the Czech Republic? I don't remember.
As soon as I will have a few time I will post the correct and more ordered list with the right counting; I am sure I have made some mistake (like putting Russia as Middle-East).
North America:
Unites States: Lolita – Nabokov
Montana: Lifting the Wheel of Karma – Paul H. Magid
Caribbean:
Latin America:
Europe:
Italy:
Scarface, una storia violenta - Daniele Cavagna
Il sangue del Sud. Antistoria del Risorgimento e del brigantaggio- Giordano Bruno Guerri
Tosca, the Cat Lady - Gina Lagorio
Boredom - Alberto Moravia
Vite brevi di idioti by Ermanno Cavazzoni
Luisa ha le tette grosse - Silvio Donà
Baraonda! - Vincenzo di Pietro
Germany:
The Trial- Franz Kafka
The Gambler- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
France:
Justine- Donatien-Alphonse-François de Sade
How I Became Stupid - Martin Page
Philosophy in the Boudoir - Marquis de Sade
Memoirs of a Madman by Gustave Flaubert
Sarrasine by Honoré de Balzac
Portugal:
Pereira Maintains– Antonio Tabucchi
Spain:
Don Quixote- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Bulgaria:
Solo– Rana Dasgupta
Poland:
Confessioni di uno psicopatico– Michele Ponte
Russia:
The House of the Dead- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Dead Souls- Nikolai Gogol
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyesky
Eugene Onegin - Alexander Pushkin
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection - Leo Tolstoy
The Yellow Arrow - Victor Pelevin
I grandi racconti by Anton Chekhov
Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
The Petty Demon by Fyodor Sologub
Hungary
One Minute Stories by István Örkény
Switzerland
Der Hund/Der Tunnel/Die Panne by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Czech Republic
Die schönsten Erzählungen - Franz Kafka
England
The Thirteenth Tale - Diane Setterfield
Norway
Hunger - Knut Hamsun
Ireland
More Pricks Than Kicks - Samuel Beckett
Africa:
Nigeria: The Tale of the Cow Tail & Other Stories from the African Diaspora by Lanre Ogundimu
Algeria: Sole nero - Marco Righetti
Middle East:
Uzbekistan: The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin: Disturber of the Peace– Leonid Solovyov
Lebanon : The Prophet/The Garden Of The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
Afghanistan: Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts
Kyrgyzstan: Goodnight, Mr. Lenin: A Journey Through the End of the Soviet Empire by Tiziano Terzani
Palestine: The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Syria: A True Story: Parallel English and Greek by Lucian of Samosata
Asia:
India:
Love and Longing in Bombay - Vikram Chandra
Navarasa by Lotus - Rajiv
Yuganta: The End of an Epoch by Irawati Karve
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Ad antiche fonti. Voci dell'induismo attraverso il tempo - Pinuccia Caracchi
Oceania/Australia:
regions: 5
countries: 25
books: 51
The Tale of the Cow Tail & Other Stories from the African Diaspora by Lanre OgundimuNigeria
regions 5
countries 17
books 30
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy(though I have read 3 volumes I will count only one book)
Russia
regions 5
countries 17
books 31
Ad antiche fonti. Voci dell'induismo attraverso il tempo by Pinuccia CaracchiIndia
and
Die schönsten Erzählungen by Franz Kafka
Czech Republic
regions 5
countries 18
books 34
Yay for Russia! It adds so much blue to the map. Maybe it's the extra credit you deserve for the three volumes of War and Peace. :)
Halley wrote: "Yay for Russia! It adds so much blue to the map. Maybe it's the extra credit you deserve for the three volumes of War and Peace. :)":D
For the bravery to have read it!
Baraonda! by Vincenzo di PietroItaly
and
The Yellow Arrow by Victor Pelevin
Russia
regions 5
countries 22
books 42
Goodnight, Mr. Lenin: A Journey Through the End of the Soviet Empire by Tiziano TerzaniKyrgyzstan (Middle-East)
regions 5
countries 23
books 48
A True Story: Parallel English and Greek by Lucian of SamosataThe book hasn't a real setting but the author was from Syria.
Syria (Middle East)
regions 5
countries 25
books 51
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For now I add just the books read this year. If I make something wrong please tell me.
This year I was in:
Italy: Il sangue del Sud. Antistoria del Risorgimento e del brigantaggio (I am sorry but there is no English edition of this book; it talks about the unification of Italy in 1861) by Giordano Bruno Guerri
Bulgaria: Solo by Rana Dasgupta
Italy/Poland: Confessioni di uno psicopatico (no English translation :/) by Michele Ponte
Russia: The Brothers Karamazov byFyodor Dostoyevsky
Portugal: Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi
France: How I Became Stupid by Martin Page
India/Afghanistan: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
Germany: The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
India: Love and Longing in Bombay by Vikram Chandra
Italy: Tosca, the Cat Lady by Gina Lagorio
Russia: Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
So it is:
regions: 3
countries: 9 (I count only once the same country)
books read: 11
Have I forgotten something? Is everything right?