Hawk listbook update#

Bhutan Kunzang Choden The Circle of Karma / Karma Ura The Hero with a Thousand Eyes / T Sangay Wangchuk Seeing with the Third Eye / Dorji Penjore Bomena / Pema Euden Coming Home / Sonam Kinga.

Benin Gisèle Hountondji / Jean Pliya / Florent Couao-Zotti / Adelaide Fassinou / Rashidah Ismaili Abubakr Stories We Tell Each Other.

Belize Zoila Ellis On Heroes, Lizards and Passion.BelgiumHergé The Adventures of Tintin / Peter Terrin The Guard / Stefan Brijs The Angel Maker / Francois Emmanuel Invitation to a Voyage / Dimitri Verhulst The Misfortunates / Louis Paul Boon My Little War / Paul Verhaeghen Omega Minor / Amélie Nothomb / Saskia De Coster We and Me / Annelies Verbeke Thirty Days / Jacqueline Harpman I Who Have Never Known Men.

Belarus Artur Klinov The Sun City of Dreams / Uladzimir Karatkievich King Stakh’s Wild Hunt / Vasil Bykau Sotnikau or The Ordeal / Viktar Martsinovich Paranoia / Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl / Uladzimir Karatkevich The Spikes Under Your Sickle / Ivan Melezh People of the Swamp / Svetlana Alexievich Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future.BarbadosKaren Lord Redemption in Indigo / Agymah Kamau Flickering Shadows Pictu res of a Dying Man / Glenville Lovell Fire in the Canes Song of Night Too Beautiful to Die.BangladeshTaslima Nasrin Shame / Tahmima Anam The Good Muslim / Humayun Ahmed To the Woods Dark and Deep / Ekhlasuddin Ahmed When the Evening Darkens / Shawkat Osman The Laughter of a Slave / Anwar Pasha Rifles Bread Women.BahrainAli Al Saeed Quixotiq / Sarah A Al Sahfei Yummah.The BahamasIan Strachan God’s Angry Babies / Garth Buckner Thine is the Kingdom.Azerbaijan Gioulzar Akhmedova Magnolia / Maksud Ibragimbekov / Anar Razayev / ? Ali and Nino.AustriaElias Canetti The Torch in my Ear / Anna Kim Frozen Time / Thomas Bernhard Extinction / Stefan Zweig / Julya Rabinovich Splithead / Robert Seethaler A Whole Life.Australia Tim Winton Cloudstreet / Helen Garner The Children’s Bach / Markus Zusak The Book Thief / Nam Le The Boat / Andrew McGahan The White Earth / Elizabeth Jolley / Alex Miller Lovesong / Jill Ker Conway The Road from Coorain / Gail Jones A Guide to Berlin.Armenia Armand Inezian Bringing Ararat / Grigoris Balakian Armenian Golgotha / Narine Abgaryan, tr.Frank Wynne) / Carlos Gamerro The Islands / Iosi Havilio Opendoor / Luisa Valenzuela / Ricardo Piglia / Guillermo Martínez / Manuel Puig / Adolfo Bioy Casares The Invention of Morel / Julio Cortázar Hopscotch / Samanta Schweblin Fever Dream Frank Wynne) / Matias Nespolo 7 Ways to Kill a Cat (trans. ArgentinaMartin Kohan Seconds Out / César Aira How I Became a Nun An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter / Ernesto Sábato The Tunnel / Alicia Steimberg Musicians and Watchmakers / Jorges Luis Borges / Tomás Eloy Martínez Purgatory (trans.Antigua and BarbudaJamaica Kincaid Lucy Annie John / Marie-Elena John Unburnable / Althea Prince Loving this Man Ladies of the Night / Gisele Isaac Considering Venus / Joanne C.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.

Hawk listbook update#

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.