si: world fiction

Summary of books read - titles, author, original language and translators.
Includes Authors who write in English.
Non-fiction titles marked with ∆.

notes & ideas...

1. Eastern Africa (I)

Mauritius - The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah (French | Geoffrey Strachan)

Zambia - Gold Mine by Wilbur Smith
Zambia - Shout At The Devil by Wilbur Smith
Zambia - When The Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith

2. Eastern Africa (II)

4. Northern Africa

Algeria - The Outsider by Albert Camus (French | Joseph Laredo)

Morocco - Adele by Leila Slimari (French | Sam Taylor)

5. Southern Africa

South Africa - A Bar of Shadow by Laurens Van der Post

6. Western Africa

Nigeria - Birds of Heaven - Ben Okri
Nigeria - My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Nigeria - Treasure by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Nigeria - The Baby is Mine by Oyinkan Braithwaite

7. The Caribbean

Dominica - Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Trinidad and Tobago - The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

8. Central America & Mexico

Mexico - Down The Rabbit Hole by Juan Pablo Villalobos (Spanish | Rosalind Harvey)
Mexico - Loop by Brenda Lozano (Spanish | Annie McDermott)

9. South America (I)

Brazil - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (Portuguese | Alan R. Clarke)

Colombia - The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Spanish | Anne McLean)

10. South America (II)

Argentina - Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig (Spanish | Thomas Colchie)
Argentina - Fever Dream by Samatha Schweblin (Spanish | Megan McDowell)
Argentina - Hopscotch Blow-Up and Other Stories We Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales by Julio Cortazar (Spanish | Gregory Rabassa & Paul Blackburn)
Argentina - Napoleon by Nelly Kaplan (French | Bernard McGuirk) ∆
Argentina - Elena Knows by Claudia Piňeiro (Spanish | Francis Riddle)
Argentina - A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti (Spanish | Fionn Petch)

Chile - House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende (Spanish | Magda Bogin)
Chile - Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende (Spanish | Margaret Sayers Peden)
Chile - Eva Luna by Isabel Allende (Spanish | Margaret Sayers Peden)
Chile - The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño | Chris Andrews)
Chile - Amulet by Roberto Bolaño | Chris Andrews)
Chile - Antwerp by Roberto Bolaño | Natasha Wimmer)
Chile - Last Evenings On Earth by Roberto Bolaño | Chris Andrews)
Chile - Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño | Chris Andrews)
Chile - Ways Of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra (Spanish | Megan McDowell)
Chile - Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño | Chris Andrews)

11. Asia (I)

Pakistan - Half life by Roopa Farooki

Kyrgzstan - Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov (Russian | James Riordan)

12. Asia (II)

China - Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui
China - Marrying Buddha by Wei Hui
China - The Good Women of China by Xinran ∆
China - The Day The Sun Died by Yan Lianke (Chinese | Carlos Rojas)

13. Asia (III)

Japan - The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue (Japanese | Michael Emmerich)
Japan - Wind / Pinball by Haruki Murakami (Japanese | Ted Goossen)
Japan - After The Quake by Haruki Murakami (Japanese | Jay Rubin)
Japan - After Dark by Haruki Murakami (Japanese | Jay Rubin)
Japan - What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami (Japanese | Philip Gabriel) ∆
Japan - A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami (Japanese | Alfred Birnbaum)
Japan - Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami (Japanese | Alfred Birnbaum)
Japan - Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (Japanese | Allison Markin Powell)
Japan - The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami (Japanese | Allison Markin Powell)
Japan - Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa (Japanese | Stephen Snyder)
Japan - The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Japan - Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata (Japanese | Ginny Tapley Takemori)
Japan - Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata ( Japanese | Howard S Hibbett)
Japan - A True Novel by Minae Mizumura (Japanese | Juliet Winters Carpenter)
Japan - The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida (Japanese | Yoshida & Mitchell) ∆
Japan - Days At The Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa (Japanese | Eric Ozawa)
Japan- Butter by Asako Yuzuki (Japanese | Polly Barton)

14. Asia (IV)

Indonesia - Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan (Indonesian | Labodalih Sembiring)

15. Asia (V)

India - Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
India - Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
India - Haroun And The Sea Of Stories by Salman Rushdie
India - A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
India - Summer Requiem: a book of poems by Vikram Seth
India - Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek Shanbhag (Kannada | Srinath Perur)

Sri Lanka - The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Sri Lanka - Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje

18. Oceania

Fiji - Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh

19. Europe (I)

The Netherlands - The Lacquer Screen by Robert van Gulik
The Netherlands - Erotic Enterprises Inc. by Xaviera Hollander
The Netherlands - Rituals by Cees Nooteboom (Dutch | Adrienne Dixon)
The Netherlands - The Safe Keep by Yael van der Wouden

Belgium - Maigret in Exile by Georges Simenon (French | Eileen Ellenbogen)
Belgium - The Reckoning by Georges Simenon (French | Emily Read)
Belgium - The Venice Train by Georges Simenon (French | A Hamilton)
Belgium - Death of a Nobody and The Man In The Street by Georges Simenon (french | Jean Stewart)
Belgium - The Crab With The Golden Claw by Hergé (French| Leslie Lonsdale-Cooper, Michael Turner)

France - Around The World In Eighty Days by Jules Verne (French | Jacqueline Rogers)
France - Delta of Venus by Anais Nin
France - A Model and Other Stories by Anais Nin
France - Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard (French | Peter Whitehead)
France - The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas (French | Sian Reynolds)
France - A Meal in Winter by Hubert Mingarelli (French | Sam Taylor)
France - Life: A User's Manual by Georges Perec (French | David Bellos)
France - Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier (French | Frank Davison)
France - Soft in the Head by Marie-Sabine Roger (French | Frank Wynne
France - How The Zebra Got Its Stripes by Leo Grasset (French | Barbara Mellor)
France - Zazie In The Metro by Raymond Queneau (French | Barbara Wright)
France - In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust (French | CK Scott Moncriff, Terence Kilmartin, DJ Enright)
France - Madame Bovary Provincial Morals by Gustave Flaubert (French| Adam Thorpe)

20. Europe (II)

Denmark - Anecdotes of Destiny by Isak Dinesen
Denmark - Whistling For The Elephants by Sandi Toksvig
Denmark - Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors (Danish | Misha Hoekstra)

Iceland - The Atom Station by Halidor Laxness (Icelandic | Magnus Magnusson)
Iceland - Butterflies in November by Audur Ava Olafsdottir (Icelandic | Brian FitzGibbon)
Iceland - Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason (Icelandic | Bernard Scudder)
Iceland - Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason (Icelandic | Bernard Scudder)
Iceland - Voices by Arnaldur Indridason (Icelandic | Bernard Scudder)

Norway - Bad Intentions by Karin Fossum (Norwegian| Charlotte Braslund)
Norway - The Bat by Jo Nesbo (Norwegian | Don Bartlett)
Norway - Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (Norwegian | Marjam Idriss)

Sweden - The Virgin Spring by Ulla Isaksson (Swedish | Lars Malmstrom, David Kushner)
Sweden - Roseanna by Sjowell & Wahloo (Swedish | Lois Roth)
Sweden - The Man Who Went Up In Smoke by Sjowell & Wahloo (Swedish | Joan Tate)
Sweden - The Man On The Balcony by Sjowell & Wahloo (Sweden | Alan Blair)
Sweden - The Laughing Policeman by Sjowell & Wahloo (Swedish | Alan Blair)

21. Europe (III)

Russia - For The Good of the Cause by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russian | David Floyd, Max Hayward)
Russia - One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Russian | Gillon Aitkin)
Russia - The Spectre of Alexander Wolf by Gaito Gazdanov (Russian | Bryan Karetnyk)

22. Europe (IV)

Bulgaria - Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov (Bulgarian| Angela Rudel)

23. Europe (V)

Italy - The Conformist by Alberto Moravia (Italian | Angus Davidson)
Italy - Roman Tales by Alberto Moravia (Italian | Angus Davidson)
Italy - The Empty Canvas by Alberto Moravia (Italian | Angus Davidson)
Italy - Ten Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino (Italian | George Martin)
Italy - The Disappearance of Signora Giulia by Piero Chiara (Italian | Jill Foulston)

24. Europe (VI)

Czechia (Czech Republic) - The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (Czech | Michael Henry Heim)
Czechia - Night and Day by Tom Stoppard
Czechia - If You're Glad I'll Be Frank by Tom Stoppard

Poland - Heart of Darkness and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad
Poland - Cockpit by Jerzy Kosinski
Poland - Pinball by Jerzy Kosinski
Poland - Steps by Jerzy Kosinski
Poland - Being There by Jerzy Kosinski
Poland - Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Polish | Joanna Kilmartin & Steve Cox - from French)
Poland - Flights by Olga Tokarezuk (Polish | Jennifer Croft)
Poland - Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Polish | Antonia Lloyd-Jones)

25. Europe (VII)

Spain - Don Quixote by Cervantes (Spanish | John Rutherford)
Spain - All Souls by Javier Marias (Spanish | Margaret Jull Costa)

26. Europe (VIII)

Austrian - Bambi by Felix Salten (German | ? )
Austrian - Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (German | J M Q Davies)

Germany - Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Germany - The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Germany - Get Ready For Battle by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Germany - 33 Moments of Happiness by Ingo Schulz (German | John E Woods)
Germany - The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (German | Carol Brown Janeway)
Germany - The Other Child by Charlotte Link (German | Stefan Tobler)
Germany - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind (German | John E Woods)
Germany - The Pigeon by Patrick Suskind (German | John E Woods)
Germany - Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck (German | Susan Bernofsky)
Germany - Death in Venice and Other Stories by Thomas Mann ( German | David Luke)

Switzerland - Jakob Von Gunten by Robert Walser (German | Christopher Middleton)
Switzerland - Diva by Delacorta (French | Lowell Bair)
Switzerland - Nana by Delacorta (French | Victoria Reiter)
Switzerland - Luna by Delacorta (French | Victoria Reiter)
Switzerland - Lola by Delacorta (French | Victoria Reiter)
Switzerland - Vida by Delacorta (French | Victoria Reiter)
Switzerland - Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (Italian | Tim Parks)
Switzerland - Last Vanities by Fleur Jaeggy (Italian | Tim Parks)