Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1986)
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Heißer Frühling by Sahar Khalifa DE
PalestineDescription:
Frühjahr 2002: Die israelische Armee belagert den Regierungssitz von Jassir Arafat in Ramallah. Atemlos verfolgt die Welt die dramatischen Vorgänge. Unter den letzten Verteidigern des in Trümmer liegenden Hauptquartiers ist auch Madschid, der seine Erlebnisse und Eindrücke in einem Tagebuch festhält.
Madschids Jugendtraum war eigentlich, als Sänger berühmt zu werden. Aber auch sein jüngerer Bruder Ahmed wird durch die Ereignisse aus der Bahn geworfen. Linkisch und verträumt, interessierte er sich nur fürs Malen und Fotografieren. Nun arbeitet ... continue
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Cactus Pear For My Beloved : A Family Story from Gaza by Samah Sabawi EN
Description:
Samah Sabawi shares the story of her parents and many like them who were born as their parents were being forced to leave their homelands. Filled with love for land, history, peoples it is more than anything else a family story and a love story told with enormous humanity and feeling. How the son (one of six), born at the height of the displacements to a disabled father and illiterate mother, a believer in peaceful resistance, became a leading poet and writer in Palestine, before being forced, with his own young family in tow, to flee and start a new life in Australia. One of the gifts of Sama... continue
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Thyme Travellers : An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction by Sonia Sulaiman EN
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Thyme Travellers collects fourteen of the Palestinian diaspora’s best voices in speculative fiction. Speculative fiction as a genre invites a reconfiguring of reality, and here each story is a portal into realms of history, folklore and futures. A man stands on the shore waiting to commune with those who live in the ocean. Pilgrims stretch into the distance, passing a stone cairn with a mysterious light streaming from it. Two Australian women fervently dig a tunnel to Jerusalem. Men from Gaza swim in the sea until they drown, still unconcerned. A father and son struggle to connect over the AI ... continue
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De wonderlijke lotgevallen van Sa'ied de Pessoptimist by Imīl Šukrī Ḥabībī, Djûke Poppinga NL
Description:
De bizarre avonturen van een Palestijnse verklikker in dienst van de Israëlische geheime dienst.
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The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem EN
Description:
What if all Palestinians vanished from their homeland overnight?
Alaa, a young Palestinian, is haunted by his grandmother’s memories of being displaced from Jaffa and becoming a refugee in her homeland. Ariel, Alaa’s neighbour and friend, is a liberal Zionist, critical of the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza yet faithful to the project of Israel. When he wakes up one morning to find that all Palestinians have suddenly vanished, Ariel begins searching for clues to the secret of the collective disappearance; that search, and his reaction to it, intimately reveal the f... continue
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Haifa Fragments by Khulud Khamis EN
Description:
As a designer of jewelry, Maisoon wants an ordinary extraordinary life, which isn t easy for a tradition-defying activist and Palestinian citizen of Israel who refuses to be crushed by the feeling that she is an unwelcome guest in the land of her ancestors. She volunteers for the Machsom Watch, an organization that helps children in the Occupied Territories cross the border to receive medical care. Frustrated by her boyfriend Ziyad and her father, who both want her to get on with life and forget those in the Occupied Territories, she lashes out only to discover her father isn t the man she tho... continue
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Forest of Noise : Poems by Mosab Abu Toha EN
Description:
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • "A powerful, capacious, and profound" (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. You are alive for a moment when living people run after you. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built for community use, he and his family fled for their safety. Not for the first time in their lives. Somehow, amid the chaos, Abu Toha kept writing poems. These are... continue