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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Book 172: The General of the Dead Army, by Ismail Kadare

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I'm kind of flabbergasted. How did I neglect this blog for over half a year? Yes, yes, I've been busy: I've published a ne...
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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Book 171, Greece: "Theogony" and "Works and Days" by Hesiod

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It's so weird that you can spend your entire childhood and adult life surrounded by references to Greek mythology—from Roger Lancelyn G...
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Thursday, May 18, 2017

Book 170, Bulgaria: "The Physics of Sorrow" by Georgi Gospodinov

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I had a few options for Bulgaria: the 1981 Nobel Prize-winning Elias Canetti (who didn't write about Bulgaria much, as far as I co...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Book 169, Romania: "The Land of Green Plums", by Herta Müller

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I'm feeling a little bad for choosing this work. Yes, Herta Müller is a Nobel Prize winner who was born in Romania, and yes, The Land o...
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Friday, March 17, 2017

Literature of the World map by Backforward24

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[ Source ] Not perfect (e.g. the Reddit commenters are complaining about how she didn't put down Don Quixote for Spain, and why is...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Book 168, Transnistria: "Siberian Education" by Nicolai Lilin

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Yup, we're doing another contested nation : Transnistria, aka the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic! The UN claims it's part of M...
Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Book 167, Moldova: "Bessarabian Nights" by Stella Brinzeanu

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Happy New Year! And yes, I'm still chugging along slowly with my reading program. This one was tricky: there's not a lot of Moldov...
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