Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Country Readings


You have sent in some terrific suggestions for readings about the countries we will visit. This is a short, non-comprehensive, and completely arbitrary list of possibilities, but they might be useful to those of you who would like to have some fun things to read.

SPAIN: John Hooper, The New Spaniards
Penelope Casas, Discovering Spain: An Uncommon Reader
Mark Williams, The Story of Spain
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life

MOROCCO: Elizabeth Fernea, A Street in Marrakech

GHANA: Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana: The Autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah
Ama Ata Aidoo, Changes: A Love Story
Bruce Chatwin, The Viceroy of Ouida

SOUTH AFRICA: Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country
J.M. Coetzee, The Life and Times of Michael K
Breyten Breyenbach, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness
Rian Malan, My Traitor's Heart

MAURITIUS: J.M.G. Le Clezio, The Prospector

INDIA: Julia Gregson, East of the Sun
Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
Mahatma Gandhi, Autobiography
Chetan Bhagat, One Night @ the Call Center
Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

SINGAPORE: Catherine Lim, Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore
Catherine Lim, Following the Wrong God Home

VIETNAM: Robert Stone, The Dog Soldiers
Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carrie
Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake

CAMBODIA: Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father
Chinrathy Him, When Broken Glass Floats

CHINA: Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Li Cunxin, Mao's Last Dancer
James Clavell, Tai Pan
James Clavell, Noble House
Dai Sijie, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
John Hersey, A Single Pebble

JAPAN: James Clavell, Shogun
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

HAWAII: James Michener, Hawaii

General: Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star
Pico Iyer, Falling off the Map: Some Lonely Places of the World
Pico Iyer, Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign

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