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What have been your favourites over the course thus far?
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Some that rise to the top are: The Man Who Fell From Grace With the Sea by Yukio Mishima, The Van by Roddy Doyle(as you know I read the trilogy)-That scene with the deep fried nappy still makes me laugh- Broken April by Ismael Kadare, Blanket Boy's Moon by Peter Lanham, The Rice Mother by Rani Manicka, Dirt Music by Tim Winton, Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura, A Dream in Polar Fog by Yuri Rytkheu, Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov, Wonderful Fool by Shusako Endo, First Circle & Cancer Ward by Solzhenistyn, A Writer at War-Vasily Grossman, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Ali and Nino by Kurban Said
I know I'm leaving out some others I loved...Oh yeah-The Decapitated Chicken and other Stories by Horacio Quiroga-this one has some creepy but memorable tales...
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Originally Posted by Stewart
If you consider the harsh dialect of something awful - say Irvine Welsh - then perhaps it counts as something without translation but probably in dire need of it. But since the country goes to the Olympics as part of Great Britain, it's still British writing.
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Well, I figured whether Scotland made the 'official' list or not, I'm a big girl and can read what I want
I was thinking about this earlier, and it occured to me that Guam is a US territory and they have a place on this official list..I'd have to check to see if they have their own committee, but at this point I'm tired of caring..I just need to find something to cover a few Caribbean Islands and read some Macedonian poetry online, and I'm done.