Hey everyone, I’m in need of a book suggestion for next semester. Our teacher wants us to choose a book considered “world literature”, or a book written and published in a different country (non english), and then sold in more countries. I love Frank Herbert’s Dune, Marie Lu’s Legend and Warcross series when I was younger, and The Eye of Minds by James Dashner. Looking for a dystopia / sci-fi novel preferably. Thank you anyone who helps!
by HiveWing64
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The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu is probably right up your alley. It’s Chinese in origin, and is considered one of the great works of modern sci-fi.
If you’re interested in magical realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
A Winter’s Promise: Book One of the Mirror Visitor Quartet, Christelle Dabos (Author) Hildegarde Serle (Translator)
Christelle Dabos was born on the Côte d’Azur in 1980 and grew up in a home filled with classical music and historical games. She now lives in Belgium. The Mirror Visitor, her debut series, won the Gallimard Jeunesse-RTL-Télérama First Novel Competition.
Since graduating in French from Oxford University, Hildegarde Serle has worked in London as a newspaper subeditor, mainly on The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph. In 2011, she decided to combine her love of both English and French by doing the Chartered Institute of Linguists Diploma in Translation. Although she still lives in London, her heart still lives on the Quai aux Fleurs in Paris.
Reviews
Praise for A Winter’s Promise
“A best seller in France, Dabos’s debut novel evokes both the whimsy and the deep-seated sense of justice of the Harry Potter series.”–Jen Doll, The New York Times Book Review
Anxious people by Fredrick Bachman is one of my favorites. Anything by him really.
Not your style? Try … Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga something
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. Written in Russian, translated into English. Also, totally awesome.
Ben Okri (Nigerian, Booker Prize winner)
Author of many notable works.
I recommend ‘The Famished Road’
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Novel by Patrick Süskind
Originally published in German
There is a film adaptation