Countries and Books

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Afghanistan: Earth and Ashes. Atiq Rahimi

Argentina: The Adventure of the Bust of Eva Peron. Carlos Gamerro

Azerbaijan: Ali and Nino, Kurban Said

Australia: The Secret River, Kate Grenville (suggested by Frances Howard-Brown) (finished February 2016)

Chile: The Japanese Lover, Isabel Allende (finished May 2017)

China: Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang. (suggested my my reading group) (finished March 2016)

Denmark: Winter´s Tales, Karen Blixen (finished January 2016)

Estonia: The Dedalus Book of Estonian Literature, edited by Jan Kaus

Finland: Datura, Leena Krohn

Georgia: Contemporary Georgian Fiction, translated and edited by Elizabeth Heighway

Germany: The Little Paris Bookshop, Nina George

Greece: Kassandra and the Wolf, Margarita Karapanou

Hungary: The Door, Magda Szabo

Iceland: Benjamin Dove, Fridrik Erlings

Indonesia: Man Tiger, Eka Kurniawan

Ireland: A Star Called Henry, Roddy Doyle (finished December 2015)

India: Sea of Poppies, Amitav Ghosh (finished December 2015)

Indonesia:Man Tiger, Eka Kurniawan

Iran: Things I´ve Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi

Israel: The Other Side of Israel, Susan Nathan

Italy: The Voyeur, Alberto Moravia

Japan: The Sound of Waves, Yukio Mishima  The Briefcase, Hiromi Lawakami

Lebanon: Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine

Myanmar: From the Land of Green Ghosts, Pascal Khoo Thwe

Nepal: A friend in a thousand (finished December 2015)

New Zealand: The Colour, Rose Tremain (suggested by Frances Howard-Brown), Paint Your Wife, Lloyd Jones

Norway: Bienes historie/The History of Bees, Maja Lunde

Pakistan: A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Mohammed Hanif. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti, Mohammed Hanif. A Good in Every Stone, Kamila Shamsie (all three books suggested by Hanna Mollan) (finished February 2016)

Poland: Volcano and Miracle, Gustaw Herling (finished January 2016)

Portugal: The Tragedy of the Street Flowers, Eca de Queiroz

Russland: Forty Stories, Anton Chekhov

Somalia: Infidel, My Life, Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Spain: Selected Poems, Federico García Lorca (finished January 2016)

Sweden: Indien - en Vinterresa (in Swedish), Göran Tunström

Switzerland - Slow Train to Switzerland, Diccon Bewes, Heidi, Johanna Spyri

Turkey: The Bastard of Istanbul, Elif Shafak (suggested by Atalet Gunluk) (finished January 2016)

USA: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith

• New Mexico: Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Carther (suggested by Frances Howard-Brown)