Updating my map of the world
November 22nd, 2008Reading around the world data follows:
White means I have no data yet.
Orange means I have at least one author in mind, and if you click through you’ll go to the book page on Amazon.
Green means I have the country done.
And red means I have the country done but I have at least one more author in mind that seems sweller.
November 23rd, 2008 at 9:55 am
For Brazil, try Jorge Amado. I’d particularly recommend The War of the Saints.
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Ooh, thanks for the recommendation!
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Here are a few more:
Caribbean writers:
Cuba — Alejo Carpentier, The Kingdom of This World
Jamaica — Michelle Cliff, Abeng or its sequel No Telephone to Heaven
Antigua — Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John, Luch, or The Autobiography of My Mother
Haiti — Edwidge Dandicot, The Dew Breaker, Breath, Eyes, Memory, or The Farming of Bones
Barbabos — George Lamming, In the Castle of My Skin
Guatemala — Miguel Angel Asturias, The President
African Writers:
Kenya — Ngugi wa Thiong’o, The River Between or A Grain of Wheat
Senegal — Mariama Ba, So Long a Letter
or
Semlene Ousmane, God’s Bits of Wood (I’ll be posting a review of this novel on “The Compost Heap” in the next day or so, if you’re interested)
Ghana — Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Botswana — Bessie Head, A Question of Power or When Rain Clouds Gather