Books that are rooted in one country or culture

[Anonymous]

The examples that come to my mind are Pachinko and The Covenant of Water. I would like to read books set in South American countries, African countries, Australia or even Native American stories. Long books preferred.
Do you have any recommendations for me?

[Anonymous]

Snow flower and the Secret Fan

Good Earth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The examples that come to my mind are Pachinko and The Covenant of Water. I would like to read books set in South American countries, African countries, Australia or even Native American stories. Long books preferred.
Do you have any recommendations for me?

The classics. For South America, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. For India, Salmon Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

[Anonymous]

House of the spirits

[Anonymous]

Half of a Yellow Sun by Adichie about Nigerian civil war

The Lion Women of Teheran

[Anonymous]

I did a year where I focused on Indigenous authors recently. These were my favorite novels.

The Seedkeeper by Diane Wilson
Even As We Breathe by Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
Ceremony by Leslie Silko
Moon on the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
and anything by Louise Erdrich

[Anonymous]

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (Indian)

[Anonymous]

Anything by JM Coetzee or Nadine Gordimer if you want to learn about South Africa. Also, the recently published novel “Scatterlings” is about a family at the start of apartheid. I lived in South Africa and learned so much from it.

“Out of Africa,” a memoir about the waning days of British colonial Kenya, is also a classic. Beautiful, poetic writing, and each chapter is really more like a short story.

[Anonymous]

Also “The Sun Walked Down” is about colonial Australia. It was published recently but has a classic feel to it. Very interesting.

[Anonymous]

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth (India)

[Anonymous]

The history of burning about Indians in Uganda (mostly). I loved it. She’s a beautiful writer.

[Anonymous]

Lion Women of Teharan
The Makioka Sisters

[Anonymous]

If you liked Covenant of Water, you should definitely pick up Cutting for Stone.

[Anonymous]

For India, anything by Jhumoa Lahiri

Africa-related books:
King Leopolds Ghost
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Born a Crime
Americanah
Roots

Australia:
A Town Called Alice
Tim Winton books, especially Cloudstreet or Dirt Music
Oscar and Lucinda

[Anonymous]

^Ditto
West with the Night by Beryl Markham