I love this challenge so much! It is so helpful in getting to learn about other cultures and seeing humanity through other lenses than the one I'm used to. Thanks for doing this!
Hi funny thing Rabindranath Tagore is an Indian author.I mean he died before partition but he was born and he passed away in the Indian side of Bengal.Not to discredit Bangladesh’s claim on him. I mean man literally wrote India and Bangladesh’s national anthem (adopted posthumously). For Bangladesh you should check out The good Muslim by Tahmina Anam or Lajja by Taslima Nasrin. Both these books are focused more on Bangladesh’s history which you won’t necessarily find in Tagore’s work because he passed away decades before Bangladesh was formed. For Tagore I would recommend his ss but also read his novel called Choker Bali one of the biggest classics of Bengali Literature ever.
Yep, he is considered as an Indian author, wrote India's national anthem, won the Nobel peace prize for his book Gitanjali, he was regarded as a genius, started his own institute 'Santiniketan' in India's bengal to encourage creativity, his work also went on to have an huge influence on Indian cinema particularly India's bengali cinema.
Hi, a bengali from India here. I commented in your previous part about books from India. The above commenter is right, Tagore is a bengali however he is from India. Born near kolkata and lived in Shantiniketan both of which are in current India. For Bangladesh you can check out Humayun Ahmed as well.
Hi, I’m South African. I think you should check out Niq Mhlongo’s The City Is Mine which was published this year. I would’ve recommended The Promise but since it won the Booker there are so many people talking about it already. It’d be great for you to shine some light on an amazing black South African author.
Croatia: female autor Dubravka Ugrešić - she did live in Netherlands for a long time but she grew up in Croatia and was always writing about Croatia and connected topics. She considered herself Croatian. Her books are very feminist and there are some folkloric ones Kristian Novak - male author, writes horrors, sometimes writes in dialect so I don't know how they did it in the translation and is it sending the same kind of message. Ivana Bodrožić - female author, I read only one of her books but it completely made an impact on me Lana Bastašić - apparently she writes very very good, but I didn't have time to read her books yet Love this challenge, I'm probably going to join too!
For Greece you could read the Murderess by Papadiamantis. It's a modern greek classic about an old lady turned serial killer who murders little girls and it is set in a poor greek island (where Papadiamantis was from) in the beginning of the previous century. He calls it a 'social tale' & it's thought to have similarities with Medea and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
I recently read Disappearance in Fiji, which was a very interesting historical crime novel. My expectations weren't set too high, because it is a debut novel, but I was pleasantly surprised. The historical and geographical setting is very well established and the story was very captivating.
Between shades of grey is absolutely AMAZING and you 100% should read it, HOWEVER only a very small part of it is set in Lithuania and I believe the author has a Lithuanian heritage (if I’m correct, her grandpa was Lithuanian), but she herself lives in the US. That being said, the book is absolutely incredible and you should read it. I’ve heard great things about Silva Rerum series by Kristina Sabaliauskiene
For Greece I would recommend "The last black cat" by Eugene Trivizas. It's a children's bu it's really good. If you want something more adult I would recommend either "Zorba the Greek" or "Captain Michalis" by Nikos Kazatzkis, although they are quite big. From what I've seen I think you would also quite like books by George Sari like "The Birthday" or "When the sun..." but unfortunately I couldn't find any english translations of her works, so if you find any definitely give them a read.
Thank goodness!!! That's the comment i have been looking for. Don't forget "The mistake" by Samarakis Mrs Do Re Mi by Lilika Nakos, " The third wreath " by Tahtsis A happy afternoon by Freddy Germanos "A kid counts down the stars" by Loudemis
I'm also doing this project (alphabetically) and I really liked both Broken April and The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina. It's always fun to hear what others pick for each country!!
Ngl for Bulgaria I think you should read Time Shelter (I know that Under the Yoke (I think that's what it's called in English???) is a must-read but I don't think it fits the challenge criteria and also I don't know if it can be well translated into English so I'm sticking with Time Shelter)
Hello, loved your previous long video about this challenge (I have read a lot of the same books), and I am now looking forward to your journey. I have two suggestions for Egypt. I am not Egyptian, but I am Arabic native speaker. First :"The Cairo Trilogy" by Naguib Mahfouz (technically 3 books lol). This is probably his most famous work. It is a family saga that take place mostly during the first half of the 20th Century. I want to say in advance though that some of the treatment of women is poor. This should NOT be confused with the author's opinion. The book describe things as they were. It is not preachy or tell you how you should feel. Characters are multi-dimensional. Not some cartoonish good guys vs bad guys. Second: "The Harafish" by Naguib Mahfouz. The title is VERY hard to translate, that is way it is not. Just written with latin alphabet. This is another family saga, but span significantly longer period. Maybe not for the challenge because the author migrated from India to Canada in his 20s, but A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is really a fine book.
Hey! I just wanted to say I absolutely love this challenge! I’m not sure if you’re reading memoirs, but if you are looking for a Rwandan book, then I definitely recommend The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga. It is SUCH a beautiful tribute to the author’s mother who was sadly lost in the genocide. It’s also a fairly short read!
Ive been thinking about doing this challenge as well! Subscribed to follow your journey on this trip around the world, and a great resource to find books for myself to read! 😊
Hi, I'm from Belarus. It's hard to recommend a book from Belarus cause we don't have a lot of books in English. You can pick any book of Svetlana Alexievich (she's a Nobel prize winner but it's not fiction, it's a great combination of interviews with different people on one subject: Soviet times, women and children on The Second World War, Soviet war in Afghanistan, the tragedy in Chernobyl) or Vasil Bykau (all his books are masterpiece but they can break your heart, most of them are about personal tragedies during the Second World War; he was the first Belarusian author who wrote about the War not about glory of soviet army (that was common in first years after the War) but about lots of pain and hard choices from this period).
Also I can recommend "King Stakh’s Wild Hunt" by Uladzimir Karatkevich. It's kind of a romantic gothic thriller, charged with local folklore, landscapes and twists.
For a South African (/ Botswanan) author I’d recommend Bessie Head. Her life during apartheid and consequent self exile to Botswana provides a vehicle for learning about both countries, and her writing seems to reflect a lot of that history. I’ve only read autobiographical writings by her but I have “A question of power” in my tbr list!
For Bangladesh you can read lajja by taslima nasrin. It’s a must read. It is banned in Bangladesh. Taslima had to fled Bangladesh after receiving death threats from Islamic groups. It’s one of my favourite book
I loved the Extraordinary Lightness of Being. It’s beautiful and just revolves around three characters and their relationships. Not much in the way of plot as I recall. I also loved Nervous Conditions but I didn’t think the sequels were quite as good.
for Lithuania check out tūla by jurgis kunčinas! it is considered a modern classic of lithuanian literature and is set in poverty stricken district of vilnius uzupis where an unnamed narrator meets different characters as he struggles with alcoholism. in my opinion this book is best enjoyed in autumn, when the days are gloomy and rainy also for something more classical from czechia there is a play R.U.R. by karel čapek where the word robot originates from! and for ukraine there is evenings on a farm near dikanka by mykola hohol (though he is more widely known as nikolai gogol). there is an ongoing debate whether or not hohol was ukranian writer or russian, because while he was born in ukraine and incorporated ukranian culture in his works, he wrote in russian and spent a lot of his life in russia due to the fact that at the time ukraine was occupied by russian empire. regardless, evenings are set in ukraine and are about ukranian culture, so i think it would be a great fit for your challenge!
Hi, love your channel so much! Thank you for this challenge, it gave me back passion for reading and honestly, you made this year for me much better and joyful! Unbearble lightness of being and God of small things are both between of my favorite books ever. Both are about different types of relationships, and also reflect countries and their culture of that time when books are written! I reccomed to find something different for Bangladesh, for example feminist author Taslima Nasrim, she was forced out of her country because of her writings
I think you should read The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk for Turkey. It's really controversial, people either really love it or really hate it but it's one of my favorites :)
I'm currently reading your Ecuador choice, The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina and I'm loving it so much! It's so vivid and fun, while also tackling serous themes. I've also read Tagore's stories for Bangladesh and liked most of them, it's a nice place to start with Bengali literature, I think. Kundera is an acquired taste and a slower book, but it will be worth it, I've read it ages ago and don't remember much, but I remember savoring it in the process. If you're into weird books, for Estonia I recommend Gogol's Disco (Paavo Matsin) about a small Estonian city where (presumably) a resurrected Gogol appears. And that's just the start of it. It was a real trip in every sense of the word. :)
may I recommend "barg illil" for tunisia. it's a lil fun story and I think it is neat. the title is the main character's name . edit: I'm not sure if there's a translation...
For Chile: Tengo miedo torero (queer author/story during military dictatorship) Casa de los espíritus/house of the spirits (chilean magical realism) Other renowned authors: roberto bolaño; diamela eltit, jose donoso, marcela serrano, alejandro zambra, simonetti. ❤
@@amaliafrunza7284 that’s fairly advanced prose for someone learning the language, kudos! May I recommend something a bit lighter, still playing with magic and women? Perhaps “like water for chocolate”? Allende’s prose is a bit more advanced and, as any chilean would admit to, a bit harder to grasp given the mere “chileaness” of it all (our spanish is often regarded as the hardest to understand by most spanish speakers; of course works of literature don’t reflect the many colloquial idioms that baffle so many but it is still a “weird” spanish :P)
For Greece i would totally recommend "The grapes of wrath" by Dionysius Solomos Christ is crucified again by Nikos Kazantzakis The beggar by Karkavitsas A laughing afternoon by Freddy Germanos A kid counts down the stars by Menelaos Loudemis Mrs Do Re Mi by Lilika Nakou The witches of Ismir by Mara Meimaridis The mistake by Samarakis
just recently joined this challenge on storygraph although I'm counting previously read books so idk if that's cheating 😅 for saudi arabia PLEASE don't read girls of Riyadh lol I know there's not many saudi translated books but one I just finished (Small Death by Mohammed Alwan) was recently translated into English & I highly recommend it, it is a bit lengthy but I personally think it's worth it, it tells the story of Andalusian sufi mystic Ibn Arabi thru a memoir style of writing so I guess it's not really set in saudi if that's a deal breaker 😅 (except the brief parts where he visits hijaz ig)
Hello, fellow Bangladeshi here. I know Rabindranath Tagore is the father of our literary. But he was Bengali and not Bangladeshi. He died before bengal was separated. So I suggest books of Humayun Ahmed . He is a literary genius of Bangladesh.
I wish i could give you more recoomandations from albania but sadly only ismail is translated.? I think?! However if you find migjeni or dritero agoli translated books i reccoment them more
UK: I would accually love to read books from each country here: Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Ireland, Wales. It's always ,British author'. Same with USA: 90% of books I've read in my life are from this country, I'm thinking if it's possible to find author from each state... Sierra Leone: I've got Aminata Iorna in my notebook.
Wizard of the Crow by the same author for Kenya. A long book and very funny. Unfortunately it is set in a fictional African country but I highly recommend.
I kindy feel that for Czechia´s nesnestielná lehkost bytí ( the unbearevle lightess of being) you need little bit about the historical context from that time. Just the basic is fine.
I love this challenge however from looking at the reading challenge on Story Graph I noticed Israel is listed as a country for the challenge. Looking at some of the books and authors on the list there are books that do not fit and there are known zionists on the list. I think it would be a better idea to not include Israel as a country in this challenge since they do not have a right to the land they live on especially with everything going on.
The point of the challenge is to experience a wide variety of world views - I think if the books are bought second hand or loaned from a library then it's OK to read books from perspectives you do not agree with and learn about those people from them. Critical thinking is an important life skill to learn and just ignoring anything you don't morally agree with is why we have so much secularism in society.
For South Africa, if you’re into plays, I read Fugard’s “The Train Driver and Other Plays”. 2 out of 3 of the plays take place in SA. I’ve read Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ, it was quite a challenging read, but I did appreciate the ambitious narrative methods. It explores a ton of themes and many of the “isms” e.g. colonialism, neo colonialism, Marxism, and a bit of feminism. I’ve added Sleepwalking Land as well as the way you’re described it was so captivating. Thank you for sharing. 🫶🏻
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I love this challenge so much! It is so helpful in getting to learn about other cultures and seeing humanity through other lenses than the one I'm used to. Thanks for doing this!
I'm so glad! This is exactly what I hoped for the challenge to do for me to!💚🌎
Hi funny thing Rabindranath Tagore is an Indian author.I mean he died before partition but he was born and he passed away in the Indian side of Bengal.Not to discredit Bangladesh’s claim on him. I mean man literally wrote India and Bangladesh’s national anthem (adopted posthumously). For Bangladesh you should check out The good Muslim by Tahmina Anam or Lajja by Taslima Nasrin. Both these books are focused more on Bangladesh’s history which you won’t necessarily find in Tagore’s work because he passed away decades before Bangladesh was formed. For Tagore I would recommend his ss but also read his novel called Choker Bali one of the biggest classics of Bengali Literature ever.
Yep, he is considered as an Indian author, wrote India's national anthem, won the Nobel peace prize for his book Gitanjali, he was regarded as a genius, started his own institute 'Santiniketan' in India's bengal to encourage creativity, his work also went on to have an huge influence on Indian cinema particularly India's bengali cinema.
Hi, a bengali from India here. I commented in your previous part about books from India. The above commenter is right, Tagore is a bengali however he is from India. Born near kolkata and lived in Shantiniketan both of which are in current India. For Bangladesh you can check out Humayun Ahmed as well.
That being said the book you picked up by Tagore is a gem and definitely read it ❤
Thanks so much for letting me know, and for the recommendations of books! I will check them out!
I read "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and felt like it resonated even in my early 20's and highly recommend!
Hi, I’m South African. I think you should check out Niq Mhlongo’s The City Is Mine which was published this year.
I would’ve recommended The Promise but since it won the Booker there are so many people talking about it already. It’d be great for you to shine some light on an amazing black South African author.
Amazing, thank you for the recommendation!
Croatia: female autor Dubravka Ugrešić - she did live in Netherlands for a long time but she grew up in Croatia and was always writing about Croatia and connected topics. She considered herself Croatian. Her books are very feminist and there are some folkloric ones
Kristian Novak - male author, writes horrors, sometimes writes in dialect so I don't know how they did it in the translation and is it sending the same kind of message.
Ivana Bodrožić - female author, I read only one of her books but it completely made an impact on me
Lana Bastašić - apparently she writes very very good, but I didn't have time to read her books yet
Love this challenge, I'm probably going to join too!
Thank you! I actually have Kristian Novak for Croatia currently!
I love this challenge! Btw thanks to whoever did the timestamp sections, it makes it easier for me to come back later and add certain books to my tbr
This is the best challenge! Can’t wait for your big book haul next ❤
Heheh me too!💚
For Greece you could read the Murderess by Papadiamantis. It's a modern greek classic about an old lady turned serial killer who murders little girls and it is set in a poor greek island (where Papadiamantis was from) in the beginning of the previous century. He calls it a 'social tale' & it's thought to have similarities with Medea and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
I recently read Disappearance in Fiji, which was a very interesting historical crime novel. My expectations weren't set too high, because it is a debut novel, but I was pleasantly surprised. The historical and geographical setting is very well established and the story was very captivating.
I recommend North Korea novel "Friend" by Paek Nam nyong. It is about divorce in North Korea.
Between shades of grey is absolutely AMAZING and you 100% should read it, HOWEVER only a very small part of it is set in Lithuania and I believe the author has a Lithuanian heritage (if I’m correct, her grandpa was Lithuanian), but she herself lives in the US. That being said, the book is absolutely incredible and you should read it. I’ve heard great things about Silva Rerum series by Kristina Sabaliauskiene
Oh really good to know, thank you!!💚
For Greece I would recommend "The last black cat" by Eugene Trivizas. It's a children's bu it's really good.
If you want something more adult I would recommend either "Zorba the Greek" or "Captain Michalis" by Nikos Kazatzkis, although they are quite big.
From what I've seen I think you would also quite like books by George Sari like "The Birthday" or "When the sun..." but unfortunately I couldn't find any english translations of her works, so if you find any definitely give them a read.
Thank goodness!!! That's the comment i have been looking for.
Don't forget "The mistake" by Samarakis
Mrs Do Re Mi by Lilika Nakos,
" The third wreath " by Tahtsis
A happy afternoon by Freddy Germanos
"A kid counts down the stars" by Loudemis
Thank you, I will check them out!
I was so excited when I saw the book “Broken April” by Ismail Kadare ❤ I absolutely love your channel 💜💗
Thank you so much!
I'm also doing this project (alphabetically) and I really liked both Broken April and The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina. It's always fun to hear what others pick for each country!!
Thats so fun doing it alphabetically!
For Lithuania i recommend Ričardas Gavelis "Vilnius Poker"
Thank you!
Ngl for Bulgaria I think you should read Time Shelter (I know that Under the Yoke (I think that's what it's called in English???) is a must-read but I don't think it fits the challenge criteria and also I don't know if it can be well translated into English so I'm sticking with Time Shelter)
Time Shelter is the one I will be choosing for Bulgaria!
My recommendation for Germany: Tasting Sunlight by Ewald Arenz 😊
Thank you!
Nervous Conditions is probably my favourite African book. So so good and the other two in the trilogy are amazing as well! Hope you enjoy 🤩
Oh yay, I'm so excited!
Edgwidge danticat is so great!!! I really loved her short story collection Everything Inside also
Amazing, thank you!!
Hello, loved your previous long video about this challenge (I have read a lot of the same books), and I am now looking forward to your journey.
I have two suggestions for Egypt. I am not Egyptian, but I am Arabic native speaker.
First :"The Cairo Trilogy" by Naguib Mahfouz (technically 3 books lol). This is probably his most famous work. It is a family saga that take place mostly during the first half of the 20th Century. I want to say in advance though that some of the treatment of women is poor. This should NOT be confused with the author's opinion. The book describe things as they were. It is not preachy or tell you how you should feel. Characters are multi-dimensional. Not some cartoonish good guys vs bad guys.
Second: "The Harafish" by Naguib Mahfouz. The title is VERY hard to translate, that is way it is not. Just written with latin alphabet. This is another family saga, but span significantly longer period.
Maybe not for the challenge because the author migrated from India to Canada in his 20s, but A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is really a fine book.
Thank you so much!
Hey, I have just found your channel and its great! I am
Also reading arround the world and its so nice to see other people doing it!
Thank you so much! Welcome!
Hey! I just wanted to say I absolutely love this challenge! I’m not sure if you’re reading memoirs, but if you are looking for a Rwandan book, then I definitely recommend The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga. It is SUCH a beautiful tribute to the author’s mother who was sadly lost in the genocide. It’s also a fairly short read!
Thank you i'll check it out!
I finished Nervous Conditions today. It is an amazing book ❤
Ooh I'm excited!
Ive been thinking about doing this challenge as well! Subscribed to follow your journey on this trip around the world, and a great resource to find books for myself to read! 😊
Thank you, welcome!
Hi, I'm from Belarus. It's hard to recommend a book from Belarus cause we don't have a lot of books in English. You can pick any book of Svetlana Alexievich (she's a Nobel prize winner but it's not fiction, it's a great combination of interviews with different people on one subject: Soviet times, women and children on The Second World War, Soviet war in Afghanistan, the tragedy in Chernobyl) or Vasil Bykau (all his books are masterpiece but they can break your heart, most of them are about personal tragedies during the Second World War; he was the first Belarusian author who wrote about the War not about glory of soviet army (that was common in first years after the War) but about lots of pain and hard choices from this period).
Also I can recommend "King Stakh’s Wild Hunt" by Uladzimir Karatkevich.
It's kind of a romantic gothic thriller, charged with local folklore, landscapes and twists.
Thank you so much!
Your challenge is so nice and a good idea, and I found so many new and interesting books in the comments.
Me too!!
Albania - I'd recommend Free by Leah Ypi, a memoir of growing up in Albania
Thank you!
For a South African (/ Botswanan) author I’d recommend Bessie Head. Her life during apartheid and consequent self exile to Botswana provides a vehicle for learning about both countries, and her writing seems to reflect a lot of that history. I’ve only read autobiographical writings by her but I have “A question of power” in my tbr list!
I loved What Storm What Thunder. I’m reading more of her books now.
For Bangladesh you can read lajja by taslima nasrin. It’s a must read. It is banned in Bangladesh. Taslima had to fled Bangladesh after receiving death threats from Islamic groups.
It’s one of my favourite book
Thank you!
I loved the Extraordinary Lightness of Being. It’s beautiful and just revolves around three characters and their relationships. Not much in the way of plot as I recall.
I also loved Nervous Conditions but I didn’t think the sequels were quite as good.
Edwige Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid are also amazing.
Amazing, thank you!
for Lithuania check out tūla by jurgis kunčinas! it is considered a modern classic of lithuanian literature and is set in poverty stricken district of vilnius uzupis where an unnamed narrator meets different characters as he struggles with alcoholism. in my opinion this book is best enjoyed in autumn, when the days are gloomy and rainy
also for something more classical from czechia there is a play R.U.R. by karel čapek where the word robot originates from! and for ukraine there is evenings on a farm near dikanka by mykola hohol (though he is more widely known as nikolai gogol). there is an ongoing debate whether or not hohol was ukranian writer or russian, because while he was born in ukraine and incorporated ukranian culture in his works, he wrote in russian and spent a lot of his life in russia due to the fact that at the time ukraine was occupied by russian empire. regardless, evenings are set in ukraine and are about ukranian culture, so i think it would be a great fit for your challenge!
Hi, love your channel so much! Thank you for this challenge, it gave me back passion for reading and honestly, you made this year for me much better and joyful!
Unbearble lightness of being and God of small things are both between of my favorite books ever. Both are about different types of relationships, and also reflect countries and their culture of that time when books are written!
I reccomed to find something different for Bangladesh, for example feminist author Taslima Nasrim, she was forced out of her country because of her writings
Thank you so much! I will find someone else for Bangladesh, and thanks for the recommendation!
I think you should read The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk for Turkey. It's really controversial, people either really love it or really hate it but it's one of my favorites :)
I'm currently reading your Ecuador choice, The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina and I'm loving it so much! It's so vivid and fun, while also tackling serous themes. I've also read Tagore's stories for Bangladesh and liked most of them, it's a nice place to start with Bengali literature, I think. Kundera is an acquired taste and a slower book, but it will be worth it, I've read it ages ago and don't remember much, but I remember savoring it in the process. If you're into weird books, for Estonia I recommend Gogol's Disco (Paavo Matsin) about a small Estonian city where (presumably) a resurrected Gogol appears. And that's just the start of it. It was a real trip in every sense of the word. :)
Oh yay, i'm looking forward to it! Thank you!
for Hungary you should read Édes Anna by Kosztolányi Dezső !!
may I recommend "barg illil" for tunisia. it's a lil fun story and I think it is neat. the title is the main character's name .
edit: I'm not sure if there's a translation...
The thumbnail of this video is so similar to the previous one I didnt realize this was a different video at first 😂 I thought I already watched it
Hahhaa, my laziness got to the best of me with this one!
INDIA - Midnight's Children is so good. Read it.
as ukranian, very excited about your pick for ukraine. one of my faves authors from past ❤
Oh yay, I'm excited!
For Chile:
Tengo miedo torero (queer author/story during military dictatorship)
Casa de los espíritus/house of the spirits (chilean magical realism)
Other renowned authors: roberto bolaño; diamela eltit, jose donoso, marcela serrano, alejandro zambra, simonetti. ❤
@@amaliafrunza7284 that’s fairly advanced prose for someone learning the language, kudos! May I recommend something a bit lighter, still playing with magic and women? Perhaps “like water for chocolate”? Allende’s prose is a bit more advanced and, as any chilean would admit to, a bit harder to grasp given the mere “chileaness” of it all (our spanish is often regarded as the hardest to understand by most spanish speakers; of course works of literature don’t reflect the many colloquial idioms that baffle so many but it is still a “weird” spanish :P)
Isabel Allende is who I will do for Chile! Thank you!
For Greece i would totally recommend
"The grapes of wrath" by Dionysius Solomos
Christ is crucified again by Nikos Kazantzakis
The beggar by Karkavitsas
A laughing afternoon by Freddy Germanos
A kid counts down the stars by Menelaos Loudemis
Mrs Do Re Mi by Lilika Nakou
The witches of Ismir by Mara Meimaridis
The mistake by Samarakis
Thank you so much!
@@LydLoves You are so welcome ☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️ Have a wonderful week.
Hi! For Hungary I recomend you The Paul Street Boys by Ferenc Molnár. It is very good, and emotional book
Thank you!
just recently joined this challenge on storygraph although I'm counting previously read books so idk if that's cheating 😅 for saudi arabia PLEASE don't read girls of Riyadh lol I know there's not many saudi translated books but one I just finished (Small Death by Mohammed Alwan) was recently translated into English & I highly recommend it, it is a bit lengthy but I personally think it's worth it, it tells the story of Andalusian sufi mystic Ibn Arabi thru a memoir style of writing so I guess it's not really set in saudi if that's a deal breaker 😅 (except the brief parts where he visits hijaz ig)
Thank you for the reccomendation! I will check it out for sure!
Wow, Lesya Ukraīnka from Ukraine, it's a really good choise. She was a feminist icone of her time.
For Jamaica I recommend The Pirate's Daughter by Margaret Cezair Thompson. Even has Errol Flynn in it. A great read.
Hello, fellow Bangladeshi here. I know Rabindranath Tagore is the father of our literary. But he was Bengali and not Bangladeshi. He died before bengal was separated. So I suggest books of Humayun Ahmed . He is a literary genius of Bangladesh.
Indian Bengali here and I agree 😊 I am a fan of Humayun Ahmed especially misir Ali series 😊 great suggestion
Thank you so much for letting me know!
I wish i could give you more recoomandations from albania but sadly only ismail is translated.? I think?! However if you find migjeni or dritero agoli translated books i reccoment them more
UK: I would accually love to read books from each country here: Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Ireland, Wales. It's always ,British author'. Same with USA: 90% of books I've read in my life are from this country, I'm thinking if it's possible to find author from each state...
Sierra Leone: I've got Aminata Iorna in my notebook.
I plan to read from each country in the UK too! Much more fun that way!
Argentina? Borges, Cortázar, Pizarnik, Sábato, Puig
Wizard of the Crow by the same author for Kenya. A long book and very funny. Unfortunately it is set in a fictional African country but I highly recommend.
Yeah for Laxness Independent People
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I kindy feel that for Czechia´s nesnestielná lehkost bytí ( the unbearevle lightess of being) you need little bit about the historical context from that time. Just the basic is fine.
I will do some research! Thank you!
Ruta Sepetys is American. So even though I really liked Between Shades of Grey, I don't think it fits your criteria
Ah, good to know, thank you!
I love this challenge however from looking at the reading challenge on Story Graph I noticed Israel is listed as a country for the challenge. Looking at some of the books and authors on the list there are books that do not fit and there are known zionists on the list. I think it would be a better idea to not include Israel as a country in this challenge since they do not have a right to the land they live on especially with everything going on.
The point of the challenge is to experience a wide variety of world views - I think if the books are bought second hand or loaned from a library then it's OK to read books from perspectives you do not agree with and learn about those people from them. Critical thinking is an important life skill to learn and just ignoring anything you don't morally agree with is why we have so much secularism in society.
I agree, only acceptable Israeli author would be illan pappe
Do you think there are any countries that dont have books published in english? Like nauru or vatican city? Not sure if thats a stupid question
Djibouti didn’t until very recently and there’s only one author published in English (a few more in French).
Yes some of these are going to be a struggle but I'll cross that bridge when we come to it haha!
Between Shades of Gray is by an American with Lithuanian background so it doesn't fit your criteria.
This is what I feared! Ok good to know, thank you!
Noo not Elif Shafak :(
Oh no, is she not good?
@@LydLovesShe is not that well liked in turkey,out of touch kinda.
maybe madonna in a fur coat?
For South Africa, if you’re into plays, I read Fugard’s “The Train Driver and Other Plays”. 2 out of 3 of the plays take place in SA. I’ve read Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ, it was quite a challenging read, but I did appreciate the ambitious narrative methods. It explores a ton of themes and many of the “isms” e.g. colonialism, neo colonialism, Marxism, and a bit of feminism.
I’ve added Sleepwalking Land as well as the way you’re described it was so captivating. Thank you for sharing. 🫶🏻
Thank you so much!