Our journey so far...

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Country - Book - Author

Italy - Italian journey - JW von Goethe
Austria - Setting free the bears - John Irving
Germany - Perfume - Patrick Süskind
Poland - In my father’s court - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Czech Republic/Slovakia - Closely observed trains - Bohumil Hrabal
Hungary - Embers - Sándor Márai
Ukraine - Diary of a madman and other stories - Nikolai Gogol
Romania - The land of green plums - Herta Müller
Serbia - The dawning - Milka Bajić Poderegin
Albania - Broken April - Ismail Kadare
Greece - Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture - Apostolos Doxiadis
Turkey - The other side of the mountain - Erendiz Atasü
Syria - Just like a river - Muhammad Kamil al-Khatib
Lebanon - The rock of Tanios - Amin Maalouf
Israel - The blue mountain - Meir Shalev
Palestine - The secret life of Saeed - Emile Habiby
Egypt - Beer in the snooker hall - Waguih Ghali
Libya - The bleeding of the stone - Ibrahim al-Koni
Tunisia - Wounding words - Evelyne Accad
Morocco - Welcome to Paradise - Mahi Binebine
Senegal - God’s bits of wood - Sembene Ousmane
Guinea - The radiance of the king - Camara Laye
Ivory Coast - Waiting for the wild beasts to vote - Ahmadou Kourouma
Nigeria - Anthills of the savannah - Chinua Achebe
Cameroon - Houseboy - Ferdinand Oyono
Gabon - Mema - Daniel Mengara
Angola - The return of the water spirit - Pepetela
Namibia - The purple violet of Oshaantu - Neshani Andreas
Botswana - Maru - Bessie Head
South Africa - The House Gun - Nadine Gordimer
Mozambique - Under the Frangipani - Mia Couto
Zimbabwe - Harvest of Thorns - Shimmer Chinodya
Zambia - A Cowrie of Hope - Binwell Sinyangwe
Tanzania - By the Sea - Abdulrazak Gurnah
Rwanda - The Oldest Orphan - Tierno Monénembo
Uganda - Abyssinian Chronicles - Moses Isegawa
Kenya - Devil on the Cross - Ngungi wa Thiong’o
Somalia - From a crooked rib - Nuruddin Farah
Ethiopia - The god who begat a jackal - Nega Mezlekia
Sudan - The translator - Leila Aboulela
Yemen - The hostage - Zayd Mutee’ Dammaj
Saudi Arabia - Adama - Turki Al-Hamad
Jordan - Pillars of Salt - Fadia Faqir
Iraq - Naphtalene - Alia Mamdouh
Iran - Reading Lolita in Tehran - Azar Nafisi
Uzbekistan - The Railway - Hamid Ismailov
Afghanistan - The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Pakistan - Kartography - Kamila Shamsie
India - The God of small things - Arundhati Roy
Bangladesh - A Golden Age - Tahmima Anam
Sri Lanka - The Sandglass - Romesh Gunesekera
Myanmar - Not out of hate - Ma Ma Lay
Malaysia - The rice mother - Rani Manicka
Indonesia - This Earth of Mankind - Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Vietnam - Memories of a pure spring - Duong Thu Huong
Taiwan - Wintry night - Li Qiao
China - Red sorghum - Mo Yan
Russia - A hero of our time - Mikail Lermontov
Korea - Translations of beauty - Mia Yun
Japan - The waiting years - Fumiko Enchi
Australia - Rabbit-proof fence - Nugi Garimara (Doris Pilkington)
New Zealand - The bone people - Keri Hulme
Tahiti - Frangipani - Celestine Hitiura - Vaite
Samoa - They who do not grieve - Sia Figiel
Canada - House made of dawn - N Scott Momaday
USA - Fools Crow - James Welch
Ecuador - The villagers (Huasipungo) - Jorge Icaza
Peru - Conversation in the cathedral - Mario Vargas Llosa
Chile - Daughter of fortune - Isabel Allende
Bolivia - The matter of desire - Edmundo Paz Soldan
Paraguay - I The Supreme - Augusto Roa Bastos
Argentina - The winners - Julio Cortazar
Uruguay - The book of embraces - Eduardo Galeano
Brazil - Gabriella: clove and cinnamon - Jorge Amado
Guyana - Buxton spice - Oonya Kempadoo
Venezuela – Doña Inés versus oblivion – Ana Teresa Torres
Colombia - Love in the time of cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Costa Rica - Assault on Paradise - Tatiana Lobo
Nicaragua – The lost chronicles of Terra Firma – Rosario Aguilar
Honduras - Never through Miami - Roberto Quesada
El Salvador – One day of life – Manlio Argueta
Guatemela - Rattlesnake - Arturo Arias
Belize - Time and the river - Zee Edzel
Mexico - The day of the moon - Graciella Limon
Cayman Islands – Far Tortuga – Peter Matthiessen
Jamaica – Homestretch – Velma Pollard
Cuba – View of dawn in the tropics – G Cabrera Infante
Haiti – The farming of bones – Edwidge Danticat
Dominican Republic – In the time of the butterflies – Julia Alvarez
Puerto Rico - The house on the lagoon - Rosario Ferre
Antigua - Lucy - Jamaica Kincaid
Guadeloupe – “Tree of Life” – Maryse Condé
Dominica – “Wide Sargasso Sea” – Jean Rhys
Martinique – Texaco – Patrick Chamoiseau
Barbados – In the castle of my skin – George Lamming
Grenada - Under the silk cotton tree - Jean Buffong
Trinidad - In the heat of the day - Michael Anthony
Iceland - The fish can sing - Halldor Laxness
Norway - Out stealing horses - Per Petterson
Sweden - Hanna's daughters - Marianne Fredriksson
Finland - The howling miller - Arto Paasilinna
Estonia - The Czar's madman - Jaan Kross
Latvia – Red weather – Pauls Toutonghi