As the title says, I wanna travel. I’m from France, and I’ve recently read Jane Eyre. I didn’t know much about life in England at the end of the 18th century, I learnt a lot and the story was lovely.
Now I wanna go somewhere else! As long as it doesn’t happen today in France, I’m open to anything.
I’d be very grateful for a few suggestions! Thanks ❤️
by Blue_Grenadine
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Last Summer in the City – Gianfranco Calligarich – summer in Rome in the 60s
winter in sokcho – Elisa Shua Dusapin – sokcho South Korea in modern times (I believe this was originally written in French too?)
The savage detectives – Roberto Bolaño – Mexico City and the Sonora desert in the 1970s, also little snippets of lots of other places (tiny bit in France, a lot in Barcelona, some in Israel and Nicaragua)
Girl with a pearl earring
Gone with the wind
Pachinko
The thorn birds
Macunaima by Mario de Andrade, a classic Brazilian fantasy that takes place in the Amazon and features gods and creatures from indigenous mythology
*Small Island* by Andrea Levy. It’s about Jamaican immigrants to the UK in the 1940s.