I see the same books suggested everywhere all the time, and the author usually come from these two places. I've read plenty of good novels by Indian authors (for example Manil Suri, Rohinton Mistry, Aravind Adiga, Amitav Ghosh, Salman Rushdie) and Nigerian authors (at least Ben Okri, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie), but I'm sure there are a lot of novels from many other countries that I've never heard about.
So recommend me English-language novels written by authors from countries other than those three mentioned in the title. Also no "diaspora novels", where the story is about immigrant life in those three places.
Genre: preferably no romance or crime.
Thank you 🙂
Edit: please no translated books, as I may have read them in some other language
by Gwydda
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