Read Around Asia Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Asia.
Best books from Asia (1979)
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The Singularity by Balsam Karam EN
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A lyrical and devastating study of grief, migration and motherhood from one of Sweden's most exciting new novelists.
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La dernière place by Négar Djavadi FR
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Le 8 janvier 2020, le vol 752 d’Ukraine International Airlines reliant Téhéran à Kiev s’écrase six minutes après le décollage entraînant la mort des 176 passagers et membres d’équipage. Ce crash survient dans un contexte de tensions extrêmes entre l’Iran et les États-Unis.
À travers l’histoire de sa cousine Niloufar Sadr, présente sur ce vol, Négar Djavadi relate cette tragédie. Traumatisme national, la chute du PS752 est l’un des événements qui a... continue
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Mind the Child : The Victoria Line by Camila Batmanghelidjh, Kids Company (Charity) EN
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Written by the children of Kids Company in partnership with Camila Batmanghelidjh, Mind The Childwill bring voices to light from the hidden parts of the city, the parts not usually heard from in our media, the parts least served by investment, and by public transport. The stations of the Victoria Line are some of the few on the Underground to weave into the capital's most neglected areas - south and east London - but even they stop abruptly at the relatively central points of Brixton at one end, Walthamstow at the other. Here, the children bring us beyond these arbitrary cut-offs, into the vas... continue
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Pomegranates & Artichokes : Recipes and Memories of a Journey from Iran to Italy by Saghar Setareh EN
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Beautiful cookbook and personal history following the authors journey from Iran to Italy.
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In a haunting world under totalitarianism, an individual’s unsuccessful quest for truth, agency, and understanding. B, a journalist, travels to the South of an unnamed desert country for a mysterious mission to write a report about the recent strikes in an offshore oil rig. From the beginning of his trip, he is faced with a cruel and broken landscape of drought and decay, superstitious believers of evil winds and spirits, and corrupt entities focused on manipulation and censorship. As he tries to defend himself against his unknown enemies, we learn about his father’s disappearance, his fading ... continue
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Das Leben meiner Mutter by Doris Lessing DE
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Es ist die Geschichte einer gegenseitigen Verletzung, die Doris Lessing in diesen Erinnerungen aufgezeichnet hat, nüchtern und konkret, ohne in den Tonfall einer Abrechnung zu verfallen: »Ich versuchte unentwegt, mich dem Verlangen meiner Mutter zu entziehen, ich solle klüger als alle anderen sein.« Die Tochter, die in der Tat klüger werden sollte als viele andere, denkt zurück an den kolonialen Alltag im Rhodesien der dreißiger Jahre, an das Dasein ihrer Mutter und an sich selbst, »das Idealbild einer schwierigen Heranwachsenden«. Sie beschreibt, wie unerträglich ihre Mutter war und wie unert... continue
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The Nightingales are Drunk by Mohammad Hafez - Dick Davis (Translator) EN
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'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise, Hafez's poems have enchanted their readers for more than 600 years. One of the greatest figures of world literature, he remains today the most popular poet in modern Iran. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th ce... continue
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The Man who Snapped His Fingers by Fariba Hachtroudi EN
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The Man Who Snapped His Fingers is a novel of ideas, exploring power and memory by an important female writer from a part of the world where female voices are routinely silenced. A defiant book in the face of repressive governments, this book illustrates the universal fight for freedom happening in our world today. She was known as "Bait 455," the most famous prisoner in a ruthless theological republic. He was one of the colonels closest to the Supreme Commander. When they meet, years later, far from their country of birth, a strange, equivocal relationship develops between them. Both their sh... continue
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The Wind in My Hair by Masih Alinejad EN
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Death and memory -- Beloved roots -- The disaster -- Surviving disaster -- With the wind in my hair -- Men and women -- My mother -- Desire for freedom -- Kuwait -- Women -- Italy -- Motherhood -- About the intifada.