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Saudi ArabiaRajaa Al-Sanea Girls of Riyadh / Raja Alem My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca / Abdul Rahman Munif Endings; Cities of Salt; The Trench; Variations on Night and Day / ed. The package spent several days at their central location in York, PA, before it was picked up and transported to Savage, MD, near Baltimore. Amin Maalouf Lebanese author writing in French from France covers other countries too, excellent and well translated. This extra entry represented territories not on the list of UN recognised nations (plus Taiwan) that I used for this project.However, the best thing about this is the exposure to so many different cultures that bring to the table so many – at least to our culture – fresh ideas.

And although there is no official Palestine writing Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin is a must read if you want to see a Palestinian perspective and a counter narrative to the Jewish stories. Iran Akbar Golrang Parpin Flowers /Nasrin Alavi We are Iran / Shahrnush Parsipur Touba and the Meaning of Night / Mahmoud Dowlatabadi The Colonel (trans.You should go through the 2011 and 2012 DSC Prize Longlists and Shortlists for some reading material. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

Other recent favourites include The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht which is really Serbian but could probably be classified as Bosnian or even American. Also, to read bosnian literature and miss Meša Selimović is imaginable for me, I really recommend two of his works, ”Death and the Dervish” and ”The Fortress”.I have to say these are just second best to what regional literature we have here in over 23 official languages and a couple of hundreds of other languages spoken across the country. Explore the planet and journey across the world to discover what makes it special in this fact-filled Pocket Eyewitness book for children aged 9-12. He was a recommendation for Hungary and I’m still trying to work out where the line on literature and nationality is – does parentage and heritage count or is citizenship/being born in a place/ having lived there for a substantial period the only qualification for being ‘of’ a country?

But actually this book is one of the greatest exemplification of good POLISH non-fiction literature and Wojciech Tochman is POLISH jurnalist. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. From first words to the Big Bang, from the wonders of nature to city adventures, you will find expert knowledge, hours of fun and endless inspiration in the pages of our books.Certain nations are covered very extensively for a children's book on two pages with plenty of photographs; others are given only half or a third of a page, with the Pacific nations positively crammed into two pages at the very back!