I’ve made a resolution that in 2024, I will try and read more non-western literature. My two favorite writers by far are Cormac McCarthy and Fyodr Dostoyevsky, but I’ve also a big fan of Céline, Vonnegut, Gaiman, Marquez, Tolstoy, Turgenev and Chekhov.
Can anybody recommend literature from East Asia/India/Middle East, etc that I could possibly enjoy. Is there some genius Korean or Egyptian writer out that there that explores the same themes as McCarthy and Dostoyevsky? I do have a feeling though that this subreddit’s recommendations will be dominated by Japanese authors (which isn’t a problem for me at all, I’m down with reading literature from Japan).
Also, please don’t recommend any books from Russian culture, I understand that the Russian “canon” is oftentimes considered seperate from the western one, but I’ve already read quite alot of Russian books.
by iridium-83