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View Poll Results: Which region should we use for nominations this month? | |||
Latin America | 6 | 50.00% | |
Canada & The U.S.A. | 1 | 8.33% | |
The South Pacific | 0 | 0% | |
Southeast Asia | 5 | 41.67% | |
Japan | 2 | 16.67% | |
The Korean Peninsula, Mongolia & China | 3 | 25.00% | |
South Asia | 3 | 25.00% | |
Central Asia, East Europe & Russia | 2 | 16.67% | |
Sub Saharan Africa | 3 | 25.00% | |
North Africa & The Middle East | 4 | 33.33% | |
Southeast Europe | 3 | 25.00% | |
Portugal, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain & France | 4 | 33.33% | |
North & Central Europe | 1 | 8.33% | |
Ireland & The U.K. | 2 | 16.67% | |
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05-07-2012, 04:15 PM | #16 | ||
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I'll begin by thirding Ficciones and The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas.
I will also nominate Edvige Danticat's The Farming of bones - from Goodreads: Quote:
If Andrea Levy qualifies (I think she is British, but of Jamaican origin), then I'd also nominate Small Island, not short, but a really good book that is very easy to devour - again from Goodreads: Quote:
EDIT: no I don't think Andrea Levy would be fair, so I withdraw this nomination, but keep it here just in case somebody has read my original message and wondered what happened to it. Last edited by paola; 05-07-2012 at 04:18 PM. |
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05-07-2012, 04:23 PM | #17 |
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I was forgetting that four votes are needed here.
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, Colombia Add to nominations for these. |
05-07-2012, 04:42 PM | #18 |
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Second The Farming of Bones.
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05-07-2012, 05:14 PM | #19 |
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All of the nominations so far are interesting to me and I'd support any of them, but I'll use my last two nominations on these:
The Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris Spoiler:
In The Castle of My Skin by George Lamming Spoiler:
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05-08-2012, 05:03 AM | #20 |
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I'll fourth The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
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05-08-2012, 06:36 AM | #21 |
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I would like to nominate one of the classics produced in this region: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. However, I think it is only fair to state that I am not aware that there is any ebook version of this novel available {though, ironically there are a number of ebooks about it!}. It is easily obtainable in pb. I'll nominate it because it is such an extraordinary book but I realise that club members might wish to give preference to the equally good choices which are available in an ebook format.
Here's the Wikipedia comment on it: Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Dominica-born author Jean Rhys. Since her previous work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939, Rhys had lived in obscurity. Wide Sargasso Sea put Rhys into the limelight once more, and became her most successful novel. The novel acts as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's famous 1847 novel Jane Eyre. It is the story of Antoinette Cosway (known as Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre), a white Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage with Mr Rochester and relocation to England. Caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she belongs neither to the white Europeans nor the black Jamaicans, Rhys's novel re-imagines Brontë's devilish madwoman in the attic. As with many postcolonial works, the novel deals largely with the themes of racial inequality and the harshness of displacement and assimilation. Last edited by fantasyfan; 05-08-2012 at 12:19 PM. |
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I was tempted to second one of the latest nominations, but the temptation to add one more was stronger Octavio Paz The Labyrinth of Solitude:
(from Barnes and Noble's blurb): Quote:
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05-09-2012, 04:36 AM | #23 |
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I'll use my last two votes to second:
The Palace of the Peacock by Wilson Harris and The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz Both sound very interesting. Last edited by fantasyfan; 05-09-2012 at 07:19 AM. |
05-09-2012, 08:34 AM | #24 | |
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I'd like to nominate The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. It is supposedly one of the top 10 most read books of all time, and I haven't...
From Amazon: Quote:
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05-09-2012, 10:36 AM | #25 |
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I'll second In The Castle of My Skin and third The Labyrinth of Solitude.
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05-09-2012, 11:21 AM | #26 |
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I will fourth The Labyrinth of Solitude.
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05-10-2012, 12:15 PM | #27 |
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About a half day left for nominations.
Edited a half day later to add: Nominations are now closed. The poll will be up shortly. Last edited by sun surfer; 05-11-2012 at 01:51 AM. |
05-12-2012, 03:02 PM | #28 | |
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I don't participate in the Literary Book Club, but still sometimes read the threads (always looking for ideas of books to read). Your description made me look the book up on Goodreads, and under Other editions, there it was: Epitaph of a Small Winner (I remembered the cover&title when I saw it). I guess the different titles may be why I haven't been able to find it. I think Machado de Assis was one of the authors I looked at. |
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