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The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's children by Salman Rushdie
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Whale Rider by Whiti Ihimira
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Siddartha by Hermann Hesse
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Chandra Vikram
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama


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lealealea Contemporary World Literature 0 Jan 19 2009, 8:34 PM EST by lealealea
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Here is a list of Contemporary World Literature for Kiama Library. Books like the Poisonwood bible, An equal music, Sophies world, Siddhartha, Atonement, Mister Pip and the English patient are all great books-but not what I would call world literature-
World Literature at Kiama Library
Abani, Chris: Becoming Abigail (Nigeria)
Achebe, Chinua: Things Fall Apart (Nigeria)
Alai: Red Poppies (Tibet)
Ali, Monica: Brick Lane (Bangladesh)
Ali, Tariq: Shadows of the Pomegranate tree (Spain)
Allende, Isabel: The House of Spirits (Venezuela)
Behr, Mark: The smell of apples (South Africa)
Chai, Arlene J: Eating fire and drinking water (Philipines)
Chandra, Vikram: Red Earth and Pouring Rain (India)
Coetzee, J.M: Disgrace (South Africa)
Dangararembga, Tsitsi: Nervous conditions (Zimbabwe)
Dangor, Achmat: Bitter fruit (South Africa)
Esquivel, Laura: Like Water for Chocolate (Mexico)
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel: One Hundred years of Solitude (Colombia)
Ghosh, Amitav: The Hungry Tide (India)
Hoeg, Peter: Miss Smilla’s feeling for Snow (Denmark)
Hosseini, Khaled: The Kite Runner by (Afghanistan)
Hulme, Keri: The Bone People (New Zealand)
Kazantzakis, Nikos: Zorba the Greek (Greece)
Lahiri, Jhumpa: The Namesake (India)
Mahfouz, Naguib: The Cairo Trilogy (Egypt)
Mistry, Rohinton: A Fine Balance (India)
Murakami, Haruki: Norwegian Wood (Japan)
Naipaul, V.S: A House for Mr Biswas (Trinidad)
Okri, Ben: The famished Road (Nigeria)
Ondaatje, Michael: Anil’s Ghost (Sri Lanka)
Orkeny, Istvan: One minute plays (Hungary)
Pamuk, Orhan: My Name is Red (Turkey)
Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things (India)
Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's children (India)
Seth, Vikram: A Suitable Boy (India)
Vargas Llosa, Mario: Death in the Andes
Xingjian, Gao: Soul Mountain (China)
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