B&B Ex Libris is hosting this challenge. The challenge runs from April 1st through December 20th 2008, and the goal is to read 9 different books, written by 9 different authors, from 9 different countries.
I will choose 9 from the following titles:
- Kaddish for a Child not Born
by Imre Kertesz (Hungarian author) - The Cellist of Sarajevo
by Steven Galloway (Canadian author) - Things Fall Apart by Achebe (Nigerian author)
- Silk
by Alessandro Baricco (Italian author) - On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan (UK author) - Snow by Maxence Fermine (French author)
- The Castle by Franz Kafka (Czech author)
- The Gathering by Anne Enright (Irish author)
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (Russian author)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy OR Dr. Zhivago by Pasternak (Russia)
- The Wife by Sigrid Undset (Norway)
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (Iran)
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem (Poland)
- Ficciones by Borges (Argentina)
