What is your favorite foreign novel? ie books written from outside of your country.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
The Bible.
Posted by PanaceaSanans (Member # 13395) on :
Phantom, by Susan Kay
Posted by umberhulk (Member # 11788) on :
Lord of the Rings The Golden Compass
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
The Master and Margarita.
Also, in terms of books written outside YOUR country, I recommend "The ZigZag Kid" by David Grossman. Highly recommend, even.
Posted by Raia (Member # 4700) on :
Also, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. And I'm sure there are others, they'll keep coming to me.
Posted by RivalOfTheRose (Member # 11535) on :
"Siddhartha"
- Herman Hesse
Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :
There are a number of ways this question could be read. I think I'll answer it in the sense of 'favorite book with the most foreign plot', since others have already remarked 'Lord of the Rings' which is geographically but not culturally foreign, to me at least.
So for me right now I think it would be Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie. Though he is quite Western, in that story Rushdie involves multiple plots and characters that are extremely foreign to me.
Posted by umberhulk (Member # 11788) on :
Yeah, i haven't read many foreign novels.
Posted by Elison R. Salazar (Member # 8565) on :
Fate Stay/Night.
Posted by hawser (Member # 13415) on :
Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday
Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :
War and Peace.
Posted by zlogdanbr (Member # 13374) on :
In my case the question is better made as "which are the local Brazilian authors you read" because I mostly read foreign authors :-)
I like Guimaraes Rosa, Braulio Tavares, Lima Barreto, Flavio Medeiros, Carlos Drummond de Andrade ( the only poetry I really really like in any language ).
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
quote:Originally posted by Raia: Also, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. And I'm sure there are others, they'll keep coming to me.
That's mine.
Posted by Jacare_Sorridente (Member # 13443) on :
I like Siddhartha as someone else mentioned. I also enjoyed la Dama del Alba (if you read Spanish) and O Guarani (in Portuguese)