Countries of the World: Our World in Pictures (DK Our World in Pictures)

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A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Please let me know if I can be helpful with any countries–I’m now going to go back through to find and read better/more representative books for some countries, as well as some significant non-countries like Hong Kong. Tasting the Sky, a Palestinian Childhood (Macmillan, 2007) by Ibtisam Barakat for Palestine – The book won many awards and is in several languages. Packed with more than 1,000 incredible images and full of fascinating facts, this beautiful children’s book takes you on an exciting round-the-globe tour, with a stopover in every nation on every continent! He wrote Auto da Fe which was very popular in the 70s but his best work is his autobiography in 3 volumes ….

Ruskin Bond is loved by a lot of readers, APJ Abdul Kalam ( our ex- president has few popular titles).

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.

It would also be great to know which Moldovan authors who haven’t been translated you think we English-language speakers should know about. I do read French, but for the purposes of this project, I am only reading books in English translation. Sadly, with 196 books to get through this year I don’t have time to read more than one book per country, but I will check out those links and add more titles to the list where I can so that other visitors to this site can read them. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Hi, i am from Sri Lanka, and i just got to know about of your wonderful effort of ‘Reading the World’.Each entry gives a brief history and outlines contemporary social, economic, political and religious issues. Seidensticker, Keene, Morris, Sargent) / Hiromi Kawakami Manazuru / Shiba Ryotaro / Yoko Ogawa Hotel Iris / Yoriko Shono / Yumiko Kurahashi / Yoko Tawada / Yasunari Kawabata Snow Country / Mieko Kawakami, tr.

When I was in my early teens, I had made it my goal to read every single Nobel Prize-winning author up through 1978 or so, and I DID! ArgentinaMartin Kohan Seconds Out / César Aira How I Became a Nun; An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter / Ernesto Sábato The Tunnel / Alicia Steimberg Musicians and Watchmakers / Jorges Luis Borges / Tomás Eloy Martínez Purgatory (trans.

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. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). 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! Perhaps in your literary travels you heard about some fantastic books which haven’t been translated but should be.

Germany: WG Sebald, Rings of Saturn – an excellently written collection of essays on topic varying from the life of Joseph Conrad to the tragic fate of Roger Casement (the same whom Mario Vargas Llosa dedicated his latest book The Dream of the Celt), to Holocaust.

Lebanon Joumana Haddad I Killed Scheherazade / Elias Khoury Yalo; Gate of the Sun / Hanan al-Shaykh One Thousand and One Nights; The Locust and the Bird / Jabbour Douhaiy June Rain / Alexandra Chreiteh Always Coca-Cola / Iman Humaydan Wild Mulberries / Amin Maalouf Samarkand; Leo the African / Rashid al-Daif Dear Mr Kawabata / Amin al Rihani / Gibran Khalil Gibran / Najwa Barakat Oh Salaam! It’s like Italy’s The Betrothed, England’s Beowulf and America’s…well, Moby Dick or anything by Walt Whitman. Wish I’d paid more attention to the blogosphere in recent months, otherwise I wouldn’t just be finding your site now…and would have recommended The Invention Of Morel by Adolfo Bioy Casares for Argentina before you’d paid it a literary visit.