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Snow Country tidd.ly/36IZccd
Ghachar Ghochar tidd.ly/2NZn5Wc
The Three-Body Problem
Childhood, Boyhood, Youth tidd.ly/3cIlizd
The Year of the Hare tidd.ly/3arK1Gt
A Little Lumpen Novelita
Julius Caesar tidd.ly/2YXVdUR
Snow tidd.ly/37Jn7bP
Remote Control tidd.ly/39Ss2bq
Micromegas
Ungirls
Letters to a Young Poet tidd.ly/3tlOtNJ
Frankenstein in Baghdad tidd.ly/3mkPOC9
Almond tidd.ly/3e9aN8B
Swimming in the Dark tidd.ly/3eHpsa6
The Silent Patient tidd.ly/3nqWj6M
The Alienist tidd.ly/3uaEzPJ
The Prophet tidd.ly/3fN4l6I
My Brilliant Friend tidd.ly/3xPG1cC
In Watermelon Sugar tidd.ly/3e9KVsS
Anne of Green Gables tidd.ly/3gtfZ8h
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4:08 Japan
6:25 India
7:54 China
9:31 Russia
10:40 Finland
11:54 Chile
13:09 United Kingdom
13:50 Turkey
15:37 Nigeria
17:01 France
17:38 South Africa
18:47 Austrian
19:20 Iraq
20:47 South Korea
21:58 Poland
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"You are stuck with me talking about books."
Jokes on you I am into that sh*t.
Reccomendations for Palestinian literature:
- any poetry collection by Mahmoud Darwish
- Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
- any book by Ghassan Kanfani
- I saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
I love ghassan kanafani and mahmoud darwish so much... they taught us darwish's poetry in school (I'm lebanese) and I read several kanafani's book (عائد الى حيفا-أرص البرتقال الحزين-رجال في الشمس)and absolutely loved them
@@megumin4564 oh that's cool, I wish I was taught Palestnian literature at school.
@@user-du7jy8kr3p where are you from btw? Is it an arab country? If yes then they should've!
@@megumin4564 I have lived all my life in Qatar but am from Palestine.
@@user-du7jy8kr3p that's interesting.. I hope they start teaching Palestinian literature at schools there and btw I hope one day your country will be free 🇵🇸
her accent while pronouncing names of places and authors is SO on point
YESSS
Honestly man for a Canadian she's pretty good put in general, not so much.
there are no exits. EMMA WHY WOULD WE WANT TO LEAVE 😭
From Machado, you should read “Dom Casmurro”. In Brazil is the most famous from him, please read it and tell us! From Brazil we have several good authors, please read more from us 🥺❤️💛💚💙
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i would recommend Zülfü Livaneli’s “Serenade for Nadia” . It is one of the best books from Turkish literature.
Yes!!! I second that!
thanks for the rec! adding it to my tbr :)
the alienist is so good!! Machado de Assis has other amazing books that I think you will love to read. kisses from Brazil, Emmie
For Turkish literature I’d recommend “Calikuşu” by Reşat Nuri Güntekin, it’s a classic, kind of similar to Anne of green gables in its genre. My mom read it as a teenage girl and was obsessed just like millions of other girls (and boys maybe). It’s also has two shows based on the novel (one is a classic old one, and one is a new Turkish drama). I watched both and was obsessed when younger. Still love the story dearly! As for Russian literature, I’d recommend “Oblomov”, it’s my favorite classic, but many people like it more as an audiobook, cause it can be slow at times, but give you so much to think about. Thanks for the video! 🥰
Calikusu is actually translated in English with the title "The Wren"
Thank you so much woooh⚡
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does anyone know where i can read turkish language books? i'm learning turkish so i prefer not to read translated ones
@@naraufiqa maybe u can download them from z library?
"Bosnia & Herzegovina" is the country, "Mesa Selimovic" is the author, "Death and the Dervish" is the book. Good luck!
You need to research the literature of Bosnia and Herzegovina. I recommend Meša Selimović and his work "Tvrđava" (Fortress) or "Derviš i smrt" (Dervish and Death). Wonderful, full of epithets and life lessons. Real art.
- "My tears are flowing with laughter. If I stop laughing, only tears will remain. ” Meša Selimović
Omg yes ❤❤
Also, the poetry of Mak Dizdar is beautiful. Especially "Stone Sleeper", a collection of poems inspired by medieval bosnian gravestones, full of mysticism, death, life, love, and heartache. Just amazing.
I read Immigrant Blues by Goran Simić this year and adored it. I’ll add Meša to my list, I do want to read more from Bosnia (and maybe visit one day)
I love how Bosnian lit is popping up in the comments 😍
@@selmaharba3692 Bosnians are everywhere hahahahahaha
Cant wait for you to talk about portuguese authors!! Fernando Pessoa, Jose Saramago, Eça de Queiros...
Samee!!!
PORTUGAL CARALHOOOO
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Would you recommend specific books by them ?
@@romalibra_books by Fernando pessoa i honestly recommend anything ahah but the book of disquiet is pretty great and it's one of the few prose books he has. By Saramago I'm not the best to recommend but O Memorial do Convento is good. By Eça the most famous one is Os Maias (sorry idk the translated titles)
For Polish literature, you should definitely read Olga Tokarczuk's books! She is my favourite polish author, she actually won a Nobel Prize. My favourite book of hers is Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead. It is so good!
I'd definitely recommend "The Cinnamon Shops" by Bruno Schulz.
Who else loves all these Emma videos?! 😊
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If I can just set a customized notification sound whenever she uploads a new content, I would. I love her channel! 💛
Hi I'm new here, do you know how old Emma is? I'm just trying to make my way into her channel 🤍
@@ri3869 Emma is my fav youtuber ever
@@mooncake262 lol love that!
Hi Emma! If you ever find yourself wanting to read a book from a Belgium writer, I highly reccomend 'The angel maker' from Stefan Brijs. It's one of my favorite books by an author from my country. A very short description: "After many years Doctor Victor Hoppe returns to the small village he grew up in. His return after an absence of many years generates a lot of interest - and suspicion - as he is accompanied by three triplets, all of whom share the same physical deformity as the doctor - a hare lip. These children are very quiet and are rarely seen in the village. But with time, and a series of apparently miraculous cures and tales of the wife he lost, the doctor begins to win the villagers over."
I’d recommend Georgian Literature. There aren’t many translations, but we have a book known worldwide. “The knight in the Panther’s skin” By Shota Rustaveli. It’s an epic poem written in 12th or 13th century. It’s a masterpiece and something Georgians are very proud of.
Such a privilege to be able to read it in its original translation.
my dad's been to georgia once and rlly loved it! i wanna go there too, thanks for the recommendation!
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"Antonio and David" by Karchkhadze is also available in English 😊
The main reason why I use CZcams is to watch Emmie. Thanks for another content! 💛 Wishing you'd do a 24-hour routine video someday. I'd love to know how you usually spend your day! 💛
Emmie you should really do a video of you talking about your favorite books and everything you like about them. I really like listening to you talk about books,your voice is really calming. Just hearing you talk about books helps my mind to settle down my anxiety. You also helped me out of a year long reading slump. I always end up rewatching your videos. Thank you for doing videos honestly. 💙
I trust your taste in books with my heart. Have read several of the books you have recommended and i have loved everyone of them! Thank you for this channel and for being so passionate and inspiring:)
It was a a rough week for me.. but your videos help me calm down. I listen to them as i write down my notes. They help me stay awake late into night as i work; i appreciate them so much! Love❤
i really like how you use the items from sponsors so that if i wanted to buy an item, then i could feel more confident doing so. this was a great video as always!!!!
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Just found ur account and safe to say, I'm completely enamored by the way u talk about books, it conveys all the feelings that the book induces in it's reader and I think I might do this challenge as well cause it seems really interesting!!
What an amazing challenge! I really want to do this too in combination with painting every country. For German literature I'd recommend "The Swarm" by Frank Schätzing (it's an eco/scifi thriller) or "Faust" by Goehte (probably the most famous German classic) or for something more magical a book by Kerstin Gier, Cornelia Funke or Michael Ende.
I bet she would like Momo by Michael Ende! Such a lovely book
faust ? god no one should do that to themselves by choice lmao
Or something from Kafka! Like ‚The Trial‘ or ‚The Metamorphosis‘! But I also loved ‚Perfume‘ by Patrick Süskind
No offence because I know you did this with good intentions but your definition of books coming from a country is a bit confusing. Nnedi Okorafor was born and raised in the States. Yes, she is Nigerian-American and writes afro-futuristic books but I wouldn't call her books as "coming from Nigeria." Honestly same with Alex Michaelides. Yeah he was born in Cyprus but he was raised and educated in the UK. I don't think you can consider The Silent Patient coming from a Cypriot perspective. It literally takes place in London
I agree that this should be clarified.
Also, it’s easier for a book written by an American (regardless of their heritage) to get published and noticed in an anglophone community. Many books from these other countries never even get translated, or they have limited prints and almost zero marketing, so their stories don’t reach the rest of the world. Wherever possible, we should strive to read authors born and raised in the chosen countries, writing from these unique perspectives, and elevate their voices.
For example, this is a problem in my country, Puerto Rico. Most of the “Puerto Rican” books available in English aren’t really Puerto Rican. They’re written by people with Puerto Rican heritage, and are usually based in the mainland US, like the barrios in NYC. Their experiences, though valid, do not equate ours back on the archipelago.
That’s my opinion, at least.
@@jessatlife Yeah I think that my only issue. I'm Nigerian American and there are a lot Nigerian based authors to that would have a much different perspective than a Nigerian American. I love Nnedi Okorafor, and I know her identity as Nigerian American is important to her so this is definitely not a diss to her but I just don't think you can consider her books as "Nigerian" books. She was born, raised and educated in United States. Definitely has more opportunities than a Nigerian author born and raised in Nigeria. Also for example Remote Control (the book Emmie selected). takes place in Ghana, not Nigeria.
@@ban1o I don't know if this is a coincidence, but your comment is one of the most liked ones yet it was almost impossible to find, it's like it's been hidden in the last comments of the video. Weird...
Anyway, I totally agree with you.
Definitely would like to see the parameters explained and discussed. Maybe it was to make the challenge easier? There are many smaller countries that don’t have English translations readily available for their literature so widening the net with 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in Western countries might help. Though it also might mean less publicized books get overlooked.
i agree. it's a strange choice
i was so happy to see brazil in this :), im brazilian and i can't lie, instead our government, brazilian literature is so good! i would also reccomend Clarice Lispector, one of the most accurated female writer of our history
I've been waiting for an update on this challenge 😍thank you for doing this, I need more varied book recommendations in my life!!
if you ever wanna read from Romania i recommend you Mircea Cartarescu ‘Nostalgia’ or ‘The Accident’ by Mihail Sebastian :)
yes 100% recommend those
THANK YOU as always for listing all the books in ur description ♡
your literally beautiful and ur my inspiration....every time I feel down or got too lazy to read books....I would watch your videos to motivate myself to read.....tbh you literally healed all of my stress and my depression✨
For Hungary I would recommend Journey by Moonlight by Antal Szerb, it's absolutely stunning.
I also stumbled upon this challenge at the beginning of this year and it’s been great so far! Then my CZcams searches led to the algorithm recommending me your channel and now I’m happier than ever!! 💛
For more India, I'd recommend Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Rushdie was very much influenced by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the book itself is very reminiscent of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Midnight's Children sure is great! It took my breath away.
omg yes
For Bangladesh, I would suggest 'A Golden Age' by Tamima Anam. It's set in the backdrop of 1971 Bangladeshi Liberation War. It's a story about a mother who opened her house to give refuge to the bangladeshi guerrilla fighters. Her daughter and son also was a part of this war.
THIS IDEA IS SO CREATIVE ✨ i recommend books from my country, the Philippines!
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San po pwede maka download ng ebook na modern tagalog version?
For more Chilean Literature I recommend: The house of spirits- Isabel Allende (is one of my favorite books and it was the first novel of the autor. She is an amazing women. If you like Garcia Marquez´s One Hundred Years of Solitude you will love this novel)
Hi Emma! I wanted to thank you for The Silent Patient recommendation, I really loved it, it was such a fun and interesting read, and as you said, it came with such a good twist.
Can't wait to read more of what you recommend! ❤️
The Year of the Hare sounds amazing! I might pick it up when I go to the library this week.
the way I just screamed and instantly started grinning the moment I saw that you uploaded 😁 your videos have become so therapeutic to me, thank you♥️
stop this is such a beautiful concept
I LOVE this idea!! So cool! I think I’m going to make it a ‘bucket list’ type of thing to read from every country now. 💜
If you enjoyed the alienist, i reeeeally recommend "memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas", by the same author. It's my personal favorite Machado book !!!
If you decide to read Spanish literature, I recommend:
Leopoldo Alas - "La regenta"
Benito Pérez Galdós - "Fortunata y Jacinta"
Fernando de Rojas- "La Celestina"
The first one is my favorite. 😄 It's similar to Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary
I will also recommend "La casa de Bernarda Alba" by Federico García Lorca o any of his books !
Hey I’m learning Spanish, do you have any recommendations for modern Spanish language books (or ones that don’t have too much literary language)
@@Lala47362 Well, in this case, I recommend you to read Miguel Delibes.His books are short and there are many dialogues. This author is very famous in spanish literature. Also, you can try with Emilia Pardo Bazan.
@@mariacabello2016 thank you!
as a spanish reader i really recommend you "nada" by carmen laforet :) (i think in english the title of the book would be "nothing")
i also really liked "mirall trencat"/"broken mirror" by merce rodoreda but this would be catalan literature instead of spanish. still a really good book :)
Something about Emma's videos always warm my soul
I am so happy I found you. This is my new favorite channel and I wish it wouldn’t have taken me so long to find it.
This is my most favourite type of book recommendation ever! There are some repeats tho but I still found some amazing books to get me out of my reading slump
Thank you, Emma for recommending Autobiography of Red in the past. Just finished. So strangely brilliant! My first Anne Carson work - I can see why you love her.
love this challenge!!
for Argentina I'd really recommend Things we lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez, it's beautiful. But of course, all the classic short stories by Cortazar or Borges are stunning too
damn i really love your channel, frequent update to satiate my desires ;-; i’m 14 and i got inspired to read many books (also got broke) and not only did it improve my english but also found what genres I’m interested in, thank you so so much! :)
For Spain, you really should read The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon! It’s one of my faves💕
So many great recommendations in this video and comment section!
Could I recommend some from the Philippines? One would be our all time classic Noli Me Tangere and another could be any compilation of short stories of Nick Joaquin (preferrably the one with a short story titled Mayday Eve) 😊
She already has Noli me. I saw it on her bookshelf tour😊
I'm so glad you enjoyed Machado 🥺💗 can't wait for you to get lost in Clarice Lispector's worlds, we love her here in Brazil, she's like a lit witch 🌹
If you want to read a book from Iran literature, i recommend these three:
1-The blind owl by sadegh hedayat
2-Symphony of the Dead by abbas maroufi
3-Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Some phenomenal indian literature I'd recommend
• A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
• Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh
• Boats on Land by Janice Pariat
glad to see someone from south asia here!
a fine balance sounds really interesting. definitely going to read it.
Hi, I'm from Brazil and Machado is our greatest author. I recommend Dom Casmurro (!!!) and Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas (his two biggest and best works)
One more Indian book rec! - 'Malgudi Days' by RK Narayan 😁it's a collection of short stories. The writing style is great, all the stories are super interesting and another thing I liked about it was that the main characters are normal people like a student, a mailman , an artist, etc!
Yes I was about to recommend Malgudi days too!
I was so excited for you to read Machado de Assis!!! 🇧🇷 I'm very happy that you enjoyed it!
I highly recommend "Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas" and "Dom Casmurro" you will love!
I've wanted to do something like this for such a long time now haha I'm so excited to hear about this 😊
I don’t have the words to express it beyond that I just love your channel
The fact that I only go on CZcams solely to watch your videos… you’re such an underrated CZcamsr!
jesus I think I'm in love. Also try some portuguese literature, maybe the Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa, probably the pinnacle of portuguese literature, cheers!
i am not even sure if you have ever heard of Georgia ( country, not a state) but i am from there and i want to recommend this book " the iron theatre" by Otar Chiladze. it was nominated for noble prize and i think it's a great book. I am pretty sure it's translated in English so maybe you would want to check it out.
from machado de assis i highly recommend “the posthumous memoirs of brás cubas” and “dom casmurro” both books are amazing
emmie!! i'm so glad you gave a chance to turkish literature and orhan pamuk, i'm sure you'll love his other stuff too. the video is amazing as always.
Not on topic for this video and definitely more October appropriate, but I was wondering if you could make a video on your favourite murder mystery books? It’s one of my least explored genres. I think I’ve read 4 or 5 books and they’ve all been so disappointing, so I was wondering if you had any favourites?
Have you read any Agatha Christie?
whats the name of the books?
Definitely also interested in this
She has read sharp objects if I remember correctly she didn't love it and here she mentioned the Silent patient-a lot of people rave about that book so maybe give that a try
Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore. It revolves around a bookstore, which is a fun cozy setting. It's clever and pretty darn suspenseful!
Frieda Klein Series Is IMMACULATE. Would definitely definitely recommend. Gripping mysteries but also wonderful character development and the hooks are as much about the characters as they are about the mysteries of not more. Plus there’s an overarching mystery across the series!
I've been thinking about doing this challenge as well! This was very helpful
Aaah! Such a good video idea!!
Great Video as always , with really great recommendations.
But i just want to say that i'm reading 'One Hundred Years of Solitude" because of you, and from the first page i fell in love with Márquez's writing. For me this is pure magic hahah
I feel like the images that he created will never leave my head.
It's so poetic, sublime and fantastic; but at the same time so real, violent and cruel.
There are some crazy things that don't happen in the real world, but after a while you get used to it and even miss the strangeness.
It is BEAUTIFUL, and i dont want it to end!!!!😥
If you want to try Albanian literature I’d recommend Ismail Kadare! He won the first ever Man Booker Prize and deals with dystopian folktales and satire.
your pronunciation while naming books or authors that are not from english speaking countries is SO GOOD, like, chef's kiss! and also…Bolaño 🙌🏽 i’m glad you read something from Chile.
Oh Anne of green gables is my foreverrr fave! So happy you loved it as much:))
Read the rest of the books as soon as possible!
Heyo!! This is such a lovely idea - please don’t forget Estonia, I very rarely see anyone on booktube read any Estonian authors. I would recommend Andrus Kivirähk, Indrek Hargla or Jaan Kross
Would you recommend any specific book ?
hi :)
i know im a bit late but i recently discovered your channel.
as an italian, i was really happy seeing you talking aobut “my brilliant friend” because that’s my favourite book of all time and im so glad that non italian people appreciate it too
I actually love many of your book recommendations! I love the variety, because I usually read a lot of murder mysteries and classics, but I love getting to know other books! And I notice a lot of book CZcamsrs focus on young adult/fantasy books which is fine I guess but I mean there are other amazing books out there.
Anne of Green Gables is one of the series that formed me as a little girl, and I keep coming back to it every few years to enjoy it all over again. I haven't read Emily of New Moon yet but I need to, and just the other day I found some of L.M. Montgomery's short story collections based in PEI at my local second hand book store so I snapped them all up! When I saw Anne as your "currently reading" on Goodreads a couple weeks ago I thought for sure it would be a re-read, because you have SUCH an Anne vibe.
I’m also doing a similar project, I started last year and seeing more people read from different countries is so exciting! I’m Swedish and if you want to read something from Sweden I have some recommendations:
- Kallocain by Karin Boye
- Anything by Selma Lagerlöf, The Emperor of Portugalia is one of my favourites by her
- Anything and everything by Fredrik Backman, but if you want a taste of the cold Swedish winters Beartown is perfect
- Also perfect for experiencing the cold winters in a small Swedish village; My Brother by Karin Smirnoff. It’s got a very unique writing style but it’s so good!
- If you want to read some children’s fiction from Sweden I’ll of course have to say anything by Astrid Lindgren, Pippi Longstocking is probably the one I read the most during my childhood.
this is such a great idea!! I would love to make this a reading goal of mine, but maybe I'll do it next year.
Hi, Emma! You are the smile on my face on a sunday to me
Much love❤
If you ever decide to read something Croatian, I would recommend Croatian Tales of Long Ago (Priče iz davnine) by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić. It is a fantasy short story collection and I think you'd love it. :)
Hvala na preporuci haha 😁
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Emma’s videos are like a warm bowl of soup on a cold winter day
Really looking forward to see you reading more from Brazil!
Read The Prophet, Letters to A Young Poet, and Anne of Green Gables and I'm telling you, these were literally the best books I read! Falling in love with literature, the books!
Just finished Ghachar Ghochar. Fabulous read, did not see that ending coming!
Hi, Emmie! Love this iniciative 😍
I'm from Argentina so your video really got me into investigating which of all the awesome books from my country have been translated, and I found out that one of THE BEST nouvelles (and I'm not the only one who thinks so, I swear) is available in English.
The book is "Fever dream" by Samanta Schweblin.
Just a warning: if you start it, you won't be able to stop till the end 🙃
A big hug to you!
Loved that you read Machado de Assis from Brazil, it was surely the perfect choice!!
wow, this video is so good! thank you!
So happy you loved The alienist, by Machado de Assis! He's a Brazilian treasure and i hope you read more work from him in the future.💖✨
Just what I needed to start my week right!!
You should read "Human Acts" by Han Kang. Its about the Gwangju- demonstrations in the 1980s and it's breathtaking.
Oh such a cool idea Emmie!
OH MY GOD I SO WAITED FOR THIS AHHH LOVE IT EM
I love the idea! I have been trying to incorporate more international literature in my choices, but I still haven't committed to actually reading at least one piece from every country, though hopefully one day I'll manage to do that. It's just such a shame that most booktubers cover almost exclusively American or English-speaking-countries literature, there are so many underrated and undiscovered international books that sadly get overlooked. If you ever decide to read something from Poland again, I would definitely recommend Tokarczuk (she recently got a Nobel Prize in Literature) Stanislaw Lem or Ryszard Kapuscinski ("The Shadow of the Sun" and "Imperium" in particular!)
If you're interested in Slovenian literature, I would recommend Boris Pahor's "Necropolis" which is an autobiographical novel about author's Holocaust experience.
I’m definitely adding this to my list, Slovenia is beautiful I hope I will be able to visit again soon!
Oh my goodness. You tucking in your blue octopus plushie was so precocious
I was also trying to read novels from different country, you make it easy for me by recommending such a phenomenal novels and I can trust you blindly when it comes to novels you have an exquisite taste in novels
Emma ❤️
The best part of this is the amazing diversity in the comments and all their unique recommendations. 😊
Hi :) If you're looking for hungarian books, I highly recommend these:
Gyorgy Dragoman - The Bone Fire
Magda Szabo - The Door (I also recommend the movie based on this book starring Helen Mirren)
Antal Szerb - The Pendragon Legend
Antal Szerb - Journey by Moonlight
These are all very popular in Hungary, especially Szerb's books, they are cult status favourites among young adults, mainly Journey by Moonlight because of its deeply insightful portrayals of emotional breakdown, indecision, melancholy, becoming an adult and how childhood memories affect our everyday life. Despite these topics, it's actually kind of a light read / comfort read :)
Hi! I work for a press that publishes Portuguese works in English translation, so here are some recommendations (not just things we've published, either) for Portuguese-speaking Africa:
Cape Verde: Chiquinho by Baltasar Lopes (this one's ours)
Angola: Transparent City by Ondjaki (I have a video about this translation on my other channel). The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa. Mayombe by Pepetela.
Mozambique: The First Wife by Paulina Chiziane. Ualalapi by Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (another one of our titles)
I don't have any off the top of my head from Guinea-Bissau or Sã Tomé, but I can also recommend the films of Flora Gomes from Guinea-Bissau
I read Almond...just great to feel the free spirit and compassion.
Thank you Emma!❤️