Each entry includes the information mentioned above for each country in the world and easily navigated by users due to its consistent layout. But please feel free to post your comments about those you disliked here – the list above is very much work in progress and consists simply of valid suggestions I’ve had so far. I recommend though for the future the author Yasunari Kawabata – Snow Country in particular which is the only one so far I`ve read from him (but I plan to read more). If you have purchased a print title that contains an access token, please see the token for information about how to register your code. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. From hook-and-ladder trucks to water-pumping trucks to the fire chief's car, kids can have the run of every kind of fire vehicle imaginable. Because the Communists in Greece were taking children from their parents to indoctrinate them in Soviet bloc countries, she defied them and snuck Nicholas away.As a teacher i would suggest my students too to get hold of books(good reads) from different countries and read. It was made into a chilling film in the mid-nineties that had a ripple effect on the country that we still feel today. New Finnish Grammar also sounds good – I heard Boyd Tonkin talking about it at the London Book Fair this week – another on for next year I think! For some reason, there seem to be loads of Czech authors whose works have been translated but very few Slovakians – do you have any idea why this might be? There is also a fascinating 'insight' fact for each country revealing interesting details that make places so unique.

Howard Curtis) / Elena Ferrante The Lost Daughter; The Days of Abandonment; My Brilliant Friend / Antonio Tabucchi Pereira Maintains / Diego Marani New Finnish Grammar / Alessandro Baricco Ocean Sea; Mr Gwyn / Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard / Alessandro Manzoni / Luigi Pirandello / Primo Levi / Italo Svevo / Dino Buzzati The Tartar Steppe / Elena Varvello Can You Hear Me? His book On The Edge or Reason has been translated into English – I have a copy, but there could be others. Having just finished eleven of the novels on the Man Asian Lit Prize longlist, I am especially interested in the books you’ve chosen from that region. It looks like you’ve made much more progress, and I’m so excited to check out your list and recommendations! I’d just like to say I’m overwhelmed with admiration for your project, especially that you’re doing it in a year (you must be a speed reader?

From first words to the Big Bang, from the wonders of nature to city adventures, you will find expert knowledge, hours of fun and endless inspiration in the pages of our books. I’ve had a suggestion for Palau which I’m on the trail of at the moment, but I suspect there may have to be some compromises for some of the harder to reach destinations – see my post on South Sudan, which only declared its independence last July. I think you might find Che Guevara could be ‘claimed’ by a few SA countries as their own not excluding Cuba of course. United Kingdom Angus MacLellan Stories from South Uist / Christina Hall To the Edge of the Sea / Deborah Levy Swimming Home / Siân Melangell Dafydd Y Trydydd Peth / Vanessa Gebbie / Caryl Lewis Martha, Jack and Shanco / Virginia Woolf / Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day / JK Rowling / ed.

Palestine Ibtisam Barakat Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood / Sahar Khalifeh Wild Thorns / Susan Abulhawa Mornings in Jenin / Mahmoud Shukair Mordechai’s Moustache and his Wife’s Cats, and Other Stories / Sonia Nimr, tr. The plot is brilliant and puts us on doubt about what really happened and what is only Dom Casmurro’s imagination, as he’s the story teller- so the discussion will never end. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The project finishes today with the post on the final 197th book of the year, however, I’ll go through your suggestions and add what I can to the list when I next update it so other readers can check them out. a. 1 cm eingerissen; Schnitt oben Kopffarbschnitt; Schutzumschlag fehlt, oder es gibt keinen; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.Madagascar has little literature in translation (although Claude Simon, Nobel laureate, was born in Madagascar when it was still a French colony). For Tanzania I could recommend a novel published by a foreigner who lived there for many years and got involved in top level football – and got a privileged look into the society and the culture in the process.

com/book/show/3788317-time-of-parting), a powerful, philosophical and (word of warning) quite violent novel that captures the clash of opposing worldviews.And New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani – which, despite the intriguing title, is a novel about a sailor who loses his memory. This book is very raw and gritty with almost no nice characters but it’s speaks truth about what slovakia was like in the 90s and problems which still persist into this day. China Zhu Wen I Love Dollars / Jian Rong Wolf Totem / Ma Jian Stick Out Your Tongue; Red Dust/ Cao Xuequin Dream of the Red Chamber / Wu Cheng’en Journey to the West / Zhang Yueran / Chan Koonchung The Fat Years (trans.