Hi! I’ve been enjoying Japanese books recently. Before I discovered my love for it my reading was rather Euro and America centered. I’d love to read some African, South American, more Asian, etc. Lit. (:
I’d like the translation to be semi easy to understand. English is not my first language and Joyce or Woolf are a bit difficult to give a picture of my level. Even Austen is hard.
I’d love some recs<3. They can be feminist books too, I’ve had a curiosity for feminism recently. But I’d love to read some fiction. (:
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African:
– _Nervous Conditions_ by Tsitsi Dangarembga
– _The Joys of Motherhood_ by Buchi Emecheta
Asian:
– _The Rice Mother_ by Rani Manicka
– _The Vegetarian_ by Han Kang
– _The Palace of Illusions_ by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Australian:
– _The Swan Book_ by Alexis Wright
Latin American:
– _The Inhabited Woman_ by Gioconda Belli
– _Thing We Lost in the Fire_ by Mariana Enríquez
All of these explore feminist themes, and are great stories.
I think *Things Fall Apart* is an excellent starter for African lit, and it’s written in English to start so that helps.
As for South American lit I think the definitive book is *100 Years of Solitude* though it’s kind of hard to read maybe. *Pedro Paramo* is shorter and easier, while *House of Spirits* is a woman’s take.