Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1977)
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Ben en el mundo by Doris May Lessing ES
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Doris Lessing retoma la inquietante narración iniciada en El quinto hijo sobre la vida de Ben Lovatt, un niño simiesco e inclasificable que al nacer quebró la paz de su modélica familia inglesa. Triste conocedor de la aversión y el rechazo desde pequeño, en Ben en el mundo nos encontramos ya a un adulto que ha experimentado el duro aprendizaje de la marginación social moderna: el mundo de los sin techo, los indocumentados, los despreciados. Ben es al mismo tiempo vulnerable y peligroso, potencialmente violento y dependiente de la aprobació... continue
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Instrucciones para un descenso al infierno by Doris May Lessing ES
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A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny. Time; Touching and beautiful. The New York Review of Books; An excursion into private consciousness...beginning with everyday mentality and ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive. The Washington Post Book World
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El Reflejo de las palabras by Kader Abdolah ES
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Los lazos profundos e indestructibles entre un padre y un hijo, capaces de perdurar a través del tiempo y del espacio gracias al poder aglutinante del arte y de la lengua, son el fundamento narrativo de esta novela original y conmovedora, de marcado carácter autobiográfico. Ismail, un novelista iraní exiliado en Holanda, recibe por correo el diario de su padre fallecido, un tejedor de alfombras de Arak, región remota y montañosa de la antigua Persia. Sordomudo de nacimiento, Aga Akbar ha escrito esas páginas utilizando los símbolos de una... continue
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Leer Lolita en Teheran by Azar Nafisi ES
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Leer Lolita en Teherán es, en el acto y en el título, una abierta manifestación de la libertad de la imaginación frente a las prohibiciones, políticas o de cualquier índole. También podría haberse llamado Leer Gatsby, o James, o incluso Austen, que son las partes en que se divide el libro (podría agregarse a Saúl Bellow).
Nafisi, es profesora de Literatura, y luego de su abandono de la Universidad, dictó durante dos años un taller para un grupo de jóvenes. El taller, y el libro dialogan con las obras li... continue
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Afghanistan, Where God Only Comes to Weep by Siba Shakib EN
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One woman’s harrowing story about life under the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians in 1979. When the men in her family joined the resistance, she fled with the other women and children to Kabul, and so began a life of day-to-day struggle in her war-torn country. A life that included a Pakistani refugee camp, a forced marriage to pay off her brother’s gambling debts, selling her body and begging for money to feed her growing family, an attempted suicide and an unsuccessful attempt to leave Afghanistan for Iran after the... continue
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Then the Fish Swallowed Him : A Novel by Amir Ahmadi Arian EN
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An critically-acclaimed Iranian author makes his American literary debut with this powerful and harrowing psychological portrait of modern Iran--an unprecedented and urgent work of fiction with echoes of The Stranger, 1984, and The Orphan Master's Son--that exposes the oppressive and corrosive power of the state to bend individual lives. Yunus Turabi, a bus driver in Tehran, leads an unremarkable life. A solitary man since the unexpected deaths of his father and mother years ago, he is decidedly apolitical--even during the driver's strike and its bloody end. But everyone has their breaking poi... continue
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Everything Sad Is Untrue : (A True Story) by Daniel Nayeri EN
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"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. But Khosrou's stories are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his family fled Iran in the middle of the night with the secret police moments behind them, back to the refugee camps of Italy, and further back to Isfahan."--
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The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam EN
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Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power and offers a view of life characteristic of his stormy times, with striking relevance to the present day. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introduction... continue
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De hemel is altijd paars by Sholeh Rezazadeh NL
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Arghavan is een jonge Iraanse vrouw die nog maar kort in Nederland woont. Terwijl ze worstelt om een nieuw leven op te bouwen, wordt ze geplaagd door herinneringen aan haar jeugd in Iran. Een jeugd die paradijselijk begon maar een negatieve wending nam toen haar moeder van de ene op de andere dag vertrok en haar vader, haar steun en toeverlaat, verslaafd raakte aan opium. Ze nam daarop een radicaal besluit: ze liet het rauwe, bergachtige landschap van Iran definitief achter zich en vertrok naar het platste land ter wereld: Nederland. 0Arghavan werkt in een tweedehandswinkel in Amsterdam, waar ... continue