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lealealea
Contemporary World Literature
Jan 19 2009, 8:34 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 19 2009, 8:34 PM EST
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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