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... un angel by Jaime Bayly
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
The Farming of Bones by Edwige Danticat
Los premios by Julio Cortazar (The Winners)
with a mention for Stephen Mitchell's version ofGilgamesh, which I loved. And my favourites so far...
Things Fall Apart
Los premios
Delirio
Mosquito
The Farming of Bones
Before you Sleep
Persepolis
Snow Country
I was going to pick 5, but I can't narrow it down that far! ... by Celestine Hitiura Vaite
15. Snow Country by Kawabata
16. The Farming of Bones by Edwige Danticat
17. Los premios by Julio Cortazar
18. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
19. One Step Behind by Henning Mankell
20. The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer
21. ... ... into all of them. I will mention a few.
Dropped The Talisman. I'll get my intro to Straub with Shadowland.
Los Premios has been dropped in favor of Los Lanzallamas, which is the sequel to Los Siete Locos. Perhaps I'll have to make Cortazar novels a priority next year. ... 5. Argentina
Los Premios by Julio Cortazar
As well as inspiring me to read new authors I might not have tried otherwise (Danticat, for example), my trip round the world is helping reduce my TBR pile too - if I'd known how much I was going to enjoy this, I'd never have let it sit unread ... ... Kawabata's beautiful Japanese Snow Country, or out in the Atlantic on board the "Malcolm" with Julio Cortazar's Los Premios (The Winners). ... cited!
At the moment I'm reading the following, which will turn a few little bits of the map red before long:
Argentina: Los Premios (The Winners), by Julio Cortazar
Iraq: Gilgamesh (Stephen Mitchell version)
Morocco: L'Enfant de Sable (The Sand Child) by Tahar Ben Jelloun
... I may or may not make significant inroads into, depending on what else I pick up along the way. (I'm currently enjoying Los Premios by Julio Cortazar, which has been on my TBR pile for, oh, 15 years...)
I look forward to keeping track of what you're all reading this year. I'm about a quarter of the way through London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd, and I've just started reading The Winners by Julio Cortazar.
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