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Good Reading Guide to World Fiction:Part 2-Oceania, Asia & Africa - Page 2

More cool reads from Bloomsbury's "Good Reading to World Fiction" edited by Vincent Cassar & Nik Kalinowski(2007). Many books I know better as films like "Beasts of No Nation", "Raise the Red Lantern", "The Year of Living Dangrously" & "The Hunter" that starred Willem Dafoe. Some authors are quite famous(& Nobel Prize winners), but many deserve to be better known. Many books or writers are from Heineman's "African Writers Series". I didn't put the African books in the order as published, thought having Egypt & North Africa follow the Middle Eastern writers was better.I also added Turkey, even though it was listed in the European section. Oceania refers to Australia, New Zealand, Samoa, etc.-Hawaii though is listed with the U.S. One author that should have been included is Saudi writer Abdelrahman Munif, especially his "Cities of Salt". Some of the Asian books had been banned in their country of origin. "Distant View of a Minaret" should follow "Cairo Trilogy".
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The King's Last Song (Geoff Ryman)
The King's Last Song
Geoff Ryman
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Coroner's Lunch
Coroner's Lunch
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The Blue Afternoon (William Boyd)
The Blue Afternoon
William Boyd
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The Year of Living Dangerously
The Year of Living Dangerously
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Timothy Mo: The Redundancy of Courage
Timothy Mo: The Redundancy of Courage
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Buru Quartet (Pramoedya Ananta Toer)
Buru Quartet
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Sightseeing (Rattawut Lapcharoensap)
Sightseeing
Rattawut Lapcharoensap
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Bangkok 8
Bangkok 8
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The Beach (Alex Garland)
The Beach
Alex Garland
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Saving Fish From Drowning
Saving Fish From Drowning
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The Piano Tuner
The Piano Tuner
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Burmese Days (George Orwell)
Burmese Days
George Orwell
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The Glass Palace (Amitav Ghosh)
The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh
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The Sorrow of War
The Sorrow of War
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Beyond Illusions (Duong Thu Huong)
Beyond Illusions
Duong Thu Huong
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The Tapestries (Kien Nguyen)
The Tapestries
Kien Nguyen
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The Lover (Marguerite Duras)
The Lover
Marguerite Duras
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The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
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The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
The Quiet American
Graham Greene
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
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The Makioka Sisters (Junichiro Tanizaki)
The Makioka Sisters
Junichiro Tanizaki
62
A Silent Cry (Kenzaburo Oe)
A Silent Cry
Kenzaburo Oe
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Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
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The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Theodore W. Goosen(Ed.))
The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories
Theodore W. Goosen(Ed.)
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The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Yukio Mishima
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Silence (Shūsaku Endō)
Silence
Shūsaku Endō
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Musashi
Musashi
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Rashomon and Other Stories (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa)
Rashomon and Other Stories
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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Ring - Koji Suzuki
Ring - Koji Suzuki
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The Master of Go Yasunari Kawabata
The Master of Go Yasunari Kawabata
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The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe
The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe
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The Tale of Murasaki (Liza Dalby)
The Tale of Murasaki
Liza Dalby
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Silk (Alessandro Baricco)
Silk
Alessandro Baricco
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Fear and Trembling
Fear and Trembling
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Shogun (James Clavell)
Shogun
James Clavell
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I Am a Cat
I Am a Cat
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Kitchen (Banana Yoshimoto)
Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
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Number9dream
Number9dream
79
Strangers (Taichi Yamada)
Strangers
Taichi Yamada
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Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
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