![]() ![]() AustriaElias Canetti The Torch in my Ear / Anna Kim Frozen Time / Thomas Bernhard Extinction / Stefan Zweig / Julya Rabinovich Splithead / Robert Seethaler A Whole Life.Australia Tim Winton Cloudstreet / Helen Garner The Children’s Bach / Markus Zusak The Book Thief / Nam Le The Boat / Andrew McGahan The White Earth / Elizabeth Jolley / Alex Miller Lovesong / Jill Ker Conway The Road from Coorain / Gail Jones A Guide to Berlin.Armenia Armand Inezian Bringing Ararat / Grigoris Balakian Armenian Golgotha / Narine Abgaryan, tr.Frank Wynne) / Carlos Gamerro The Islands / Iosi Havilio Opendoor / Luisa Valenzuela / Ricardo Piglia / Guillermo Martínez / Manuel Puig / Adolfo Bioy Casares The Invention of Morel / Julio Cortázar Hopscotch / Samanta Schweblin Fever Dream Frank Wynne) / Matias Nespolo 7 Ways to Kill a Cat (trans. 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.Antigua and BarbudaJamaica Kincaid Lucy Annie John / Marie-Elena John Unburnable / Althea Prince Loving this Man Ladies of the Night / Gisele Isaac Considering Venus / Joanne C.AngolaJosé Eduardo Agualusa My Father’s Wives Creole / Pepetela The Return of the Water Spirit / Ondjaki Good Morning Comrades The Whistler / Jose Eduardo Agualusa The Book of Chameleons / Manuel Rui Monteiro Quem me dera ser Onda (translation sought) / José Luandino Vieira Our Musseque.AndorraAlbert Salvadó The Teacher of Cheops.AlgeriaLeïla Marouane The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris / Anouar Benmalek Abduction / Assia Djebar So Vast the Prison / Boualem Sansal An Unfinished Business The German Mujahid / Al-Tahir Wattar The Earthquake / Anouar Benmalek The Lovers of Algeria / Yasmina Khadra The Attack.AlbaniaIsmail Kadare The Palace of Dreams Broken April / Fatos Kongoli The Loser / Elvira Dones Sworn Virgin.Afghanistan Atiq Rahimi A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear The Patience Stone / Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns / Anna Badkhen Waiting for the Taliban / Emmanuel Guibert The Photographer / (as told to) Batya Swift Yasgur Behind the Burqa.If you have a recommendation (or you know about an English version of one of the books marked ‘translation sought’), please leave a comment at the bottom. Links to these reviews are highlighted in orange. I continue to update the list by choosing one new title a month as my Book of the month. These are underlined and you can click the titles or country names to read my thoughts on each choice. I chose one book for each nation for the project. This is a record of all the valid book recommendations I received before, during and in the year after my 2012 quest. ![]()
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