AngolaJosé Eduardo Agualusa My Father’s Wives Creole / Pepetela The Return of the Water Spirit / Ondjaki Good Morning Comrades The Whistler / Jose Eduardo Agualusa The Book of Chameleons / Manuel Rui Monteiro Quem me dera ser Onda (translation sought) / José Luandino Vieira Our Musseque.AndorraAlbert Salvadó The Teacher of Cheops.AlgeriaLeïla Marouane The Sexual Life of an Islamist in Paris / Anouar Benmalek Abduction / Assia Djebar So Vast the Prison / Boualem Sansal An Unfinished Business The German Mujahid / Al-Tahir Wattar The Earthquake / Anouar Benmalek The Lovers of Algeria / Yasmina Khadra The Attack.AlbaniaIsmail Kadare The Palace of Dreams Broken April / Fatos Kongoli The Loser / Elvira Dones Sworn Virgin.Afghanistan Atiq Rahimi A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear The Patience Stone / Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner A Thousand Splendid Suns / Anna Badkhen Waiting for the Taliban / Emmanuel Guibert The Photographer / (as told to) Batya Swift Yasgur Behind the Burqa. If you have a recommendation (or you know about an English version of one of the books marked ‘translation sought’), please leave a comment at the bottom. Links to these reviews are highlighted in orange. I continue to update the list by choosing one new title a month as my Book of the month. These are underlined and you can click the titles or country names to read my thoughts on each choice. I chose one book for each nation for the project. This is a record of all the valid book recommendations I received before, during and in the year after my 2012 quest.
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