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Good Reading Guide to World Fiction:Part 2-Oceania, Asia & Africa - Page 4

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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A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
A River Sutra by Gita Mehta
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Freedom Song (Amit Chaudhuri)
Freedom Song
Amit Chaudhuri
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Heat and Dust
Heat and Dust
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A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
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Black Narcissus (Rumer Godden)
Black Narcissus
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The Romantics
The Romantics
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The Blue Bedspread (Raj Kamal Jha)
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Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur
Difficult Daughters by Manju Kapur
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The Alchemy of Desire
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A Fine Balance
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The Last Song of Dusk
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
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Love and Longing in Bombay (Vikram Chandra)
Love and Longing in Bombay
Vikram Chandra
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The Death of Vishnu
The Death of Vishnu
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Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai
Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai
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Shantaram (Gregory David Roberts)
Shantaram
Gregory David Roberts
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The Space Between Us
The Space Between Us
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Beach Boy (Ardashir Vakil)
Beach Boy
Ardashir Vakil
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Bombay Ice (Leslie Forbes)
Bombay Ice
Leslie Forbes
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Kartography (Kamila Shamsie)
Kartography
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Reef (Romesh Gunesekera)
Reef
Romesh Gunesekera
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Season of the Rainbirds (Nadeem Aslam)
Season of the Rainbirds
Nadeem Aslam
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Shame
Shame
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Hot Water Man (Deborah Moggach)
Hot Water Man
Deborah Moggach
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Moth Smoke (Mohsin Hamid)
Moth Smoke
Mohsin Hamid
145
Running in the Family (Michael Ondaatje)
Running in the Family
Michael Ondaatje
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The Hamilton Case (Michelle De Kretser)
The Hamilton Case
Michelle De Kretser
147
A Golden Age (Tahmima Anam)
A Golden Age
Tahmima Anam
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Galpa:Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women (Niaz Zaman & Firdous Azim(Eds.))
Galpa:Short Stories by Bangladeshi Women
Niaz Zaman & Firdous Azim(Eds.)
149
Under the Naked Skyshort Stories From the Arab World (Denys Johnson-Davies(Ed.))
Under the Naked Skyshort Stories From the Arab World
Denys Johnson-Davies(Ed.)
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Mirage (Bandula Chandraratna)
Mirage
Bandula Chandraratna
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The Book of Saladin (Tariq Ali)
The Book of Saladin
Tariq Ali
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The Prince (Hushang Golshiri)
The Prince
Hushang Golshiri
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Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
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Pashtun Tales:From the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier (Aisha Ahmad & Roger Boase)
Pashtun Tales:From the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier
Aisha Ahmad & Roger Boase
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Earth and Ashes (Atiq Rahimi)
Earth and Ashes
Atiq Rahimi
156
The Swallows of Kabul
The Swallows of Kabul
157
The Breadwinner (Deborah Ellis)
The Breadwinner
Deborah Ellis
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The Mulberry Empire (Philip Hensher)
The Mulberry Empire
Philip Hensher
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Saddam City (Mahmoud Saeed)
Saddam City
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When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad (Mona Yahia)
When the Grey Beetles Took Over Baghdad
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