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Multicultural Fiction
Read Around the World

 

Please note:  Authors on the list are writing about countries in which they were born.

a grid of the earth with the countries placed on top

Afghanistan

Philip Hensher - The Mulberry Empire, or, The Two Virtuous Journeys of the Amir Dost Mohammed Khan
Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
Yasmina Khadra - The Swallows of Kabul
Atiq Rahimi - Earth and Ashes

Africa

Lynette Brasfield - Nature Lessons
André Philippus Brink - An Act of Terror
Imraan Coovadia - The Wedding
Giles Foden - The Last King of Scotland
Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure: The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
Radhika Jha - Smell
David Schmahmann - Empire Settings
Gillian Slovo - Red Dust
M. G. Vassanji - The Book of Secrets
Stefanie Zweig - Nowhere in Africa: An Autobiographical Novel

Algeria

Mohammed Dib - The Savage Night = La Nuit Savage

Armenia

David W. Ball - Empires of Sand
Adam Bagdasarian - The Forgotten Fire
Carol Edgarian - Rise the Euphrates
Judith Claire Mitchell - The Last Day of the War

Australia

Jane Alison - Natives and Exotics
Peter Carey - My Life as a Fake
   True History of the Kelly Gang
Patricia Carlon - The Price of an Orphan
Robert Drewe - The Drowner
Richard Flanagan - The Sound of One Hand Clapping
Death of a River Guide
Tom Gilling - The Adventures of Miles and Isabel
The Sooterkin
Joan London - Gilgamesh
David Malouf - Remembering Babylon
Tamara McKinley - Matilda’s Last Waltz
Ben Rice - Pobby and Dingan
Tom Winton - Dirt Music

Austria

Cary Fagan - The Animals’ Waltz
Alois Hotschnig - Leonardo’s Hands
Eva Ibbotson - A Song for Summer
Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher
Max Phillips - The Artist’s Wife
David Porter - The Vienna Passage

Brazil

Marilene Felinto - The Women of Tijucopapo
Jorge Amado - Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands: A Moral and Amorous Tale
Luana Monteiro - Little Star of Bela Lua

Burma ~ Myanmar

Pierre Boulle - The Bridge over the River Kwai
Amitav Ghosh - The Glass Palace  

Cambodia

Gordon Beld - A Gentle Breeze from Gossamer Wings

Chile

Isabel Allende - The House of the Spirits
Roberto Bolaño - By Night in Chile
Alberto Fuguet - Bad Vibes
Tom Hazuka - In the City of the Disappeared
Sylvia Iparraguirre - Tierra del Fuego
Marcela Serrano - Antigua and My Life Before

China

Alma Alexander - The Secrets of Jin-Shei
Pearl S. Buck - The Good Earth
May-Lee Chai - My Lucky Face
Lan Samantha Chang - Inheritance
François Cheng - Green Mountain, White Cloud: A Novel of Love in the Ming Dynasty
Wayson Choy - The Jade Peony
Ying Hong - Peacock Cries at the Three Gorges
Ha Jin - Waiting
The Crazed
Lorraine Lachs - Flowers for Mei-Ling
Gus Lee - China Boy
Heng Liu - Black Snow
     Green River Daydreams
Jian Ma - The Noodle Maker
Ruthanne Lum McCunn - The Moon Pearl
Anchee Min - Empress Orchid
Wild Ginger
Yan Mo - The Republic of Wine
Caroline Petit - The Fat Man’s Daughter
Lisa See - Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Dai Sijie - Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Mr. Muo’s Travelling Couch
Amy Tan - The Bonesetter’s Daughter
The Joy Luck Club
Gail Tsukiyama - The Language of Threads
Night of Many Dreams
The Samurai’s Garden
Annie R. Wang - Lili: A Novel of Tiananmen
Lulu Wang - The Lily Theater: A Novel of Modern China
Xinran - Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
Zhaoyan Ye - Nanjing 1937: A Love Story
Hua Yu - To Live

Colombia

Gabriel Garcia Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera
Laura Restrepo - The Angel of Galilea
Isle of Passion
Leopard in the Sun
A Tale of the Dispossessed

Cuba

J. Joaquin Fraxedas - The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera - Bitter Sugar
Cristina García - Dreaming in Cuban
Oscar Hijuelos - Mr. Ives’ Christmas
A Simple Habana Melody (From When the World Was Good)
Ivonne Lamazares - The Sugar Island
Ana Mendéndez - In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd
Loving Che
Beatriz Rivera - Playing with Light

Czech

Jaroslav Hašek - The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Svejk During the World War: Book One
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jáchym Topol - City, Sister, Silver

Denmark

Peter Høeg - The History of Danish Dreams
Ella Leffland - Breath and Shadows

Dominican Republic

Julia Alvarez - How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
In the Name of Salomé
In the Time of the Butterflies
Edwidge Danticat - The Farming of Bones
Junot Díaz - Drown
Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of the Goat

Egypt

`Ala´ Aswani - The Yacubian Building
Rikki Ducornet - Gazelle
Soheir Khashoggi - Nadia’s Song
Najib Mahfuz - The Dreams
Palace Walk
Samia Serageldin - The Cairo House
Ahdaf Soueif - The Map of Love

El Salvador

Sandra Benítez - Bitter Grounds
The Weight of All Things

Germany

Günter Grass - The Tin Drum
Bernhard Schlink - The Reader

Greece

Iaonna Karystiane - The Jasmine Isle
Lawrence Norfolk - In the Shape of a Boar
Vasiles Vasilikos - The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis

Guatemala

Patricia Henley - Hummingbird House
Francisco Goldman - The Long Night of White Chickens

Haiti

Edwidge Danticat - Breath, Eyes, Memory

Hawaii

Alan Brennert - Moloka’i
Pam Chun - The Money Dragon
Linda Ching Sledge - A Map of Paradise
Kiana Davenport - Shark Dialogues
Song of the Exile
Deborah Iida - Middle Son

India

Anita Rau Badami - Tamarind Woman
Rupa Bajwa - The Sari Shop
Sara Banerji - Shining Hero
Kavita Daswani - For Matrimonial Purposes
David Davidar - The House of Blue Mangoes
Siddhartha Deb - The Point of Return
Anita Desai - Fasting, Feasting
Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Sister of My Heart
Queen of Dreams
Indira Ganesan - Inheritance
Amitav Ghosh - The Hungry Tide
Anosh Irani - The Cripple and His Talismans
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - My Nine Lives: Chapters of a Possible Past
Bharti Kirchner - Sharmila’s Book
Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
Amulya Malladi - The Mango Season
Serving Crazy with Curry
Gita Mehta - A River Sutra
Pankaj Mishra - The Romantics
Rohinton Mistry - A Fine Balance
Bharati Mukherjee - Jasmine
The Tree Bride
V.S. Naipaul - A Bend in the River
Magic Seeds
Anita Nair - Ladies Coupé
Kirin Narayan - Love, Stars, and All That
Sameer Parekh - Stealing the Ambassador
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Salman Rushdie - Haroun and the Sea of  Stories
Shalimar the Clown
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi - The Last Song of Dusk
John Shors - Beneath a Marble Sky: A Novel of the Taj Mahal
Manil Suri - The Death of Vishnu

Iran

James Buchan - The Persian Bride
Simin Danishvar - A Persian Requiem
Anahita Firouz - In the Walled Gardens
Marsha Mehran - Pomegranate Soup
Naveed Noori - Dakhmeh
Susanne Pari - The Fortune Catcher
Jean-Christophe Rufin - The Siege of Isfahan

Iraq

Batul Khudayri - A Sky So Close
Aliyah Mamduh - Naphtalene: A Novel of  Baghdad

Ireland

Sebastian Barry - A Long Long Way
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
Seamus Deane -  Reading in the Dark
Frank Delaney - Ireland
Roddy Doyle - The Snapper
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
Erin Hart - Lake of Sorrows
Morgan Llywelyn - 1949: A Novel of the Irish Free State
Bernard MacLaverty - The Anatomy School
Grace Notes
John McGahern - The Barracks
By the Lake
Edna O’Brien - House of Splendid Isolation
Brendan O’Carroll - The Mammy
The Young Wan
Joseph O’Connor - Star of the Sea
Nuala O’Faolain - My Dream of You
Thomas O’Malley - In the Province of Saints
Jamie O’Neill - At Swim, Two Boys
Maura D. Shaw - The Keeners
William Trevor - The Story of Lucy Gault
Katharine Weber - The Music Lesson

Israel

Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Only Yesterday
Nomi Eve - The Family Orchard
Michal Govrin - The Name
Steven Hartov - The Devil’s Shepherd
Yehoshu`a Kenaz - Infiltration
Sami Michael - A Trumpet in the Wadi
Edeet Ravel - Ten Thousand Lovers
Meir Shalev - The Loves of Judith
Oz Shelach - Picnic Grounds: A Novel in Fragments

Italy

Niccolò Ammaniti - I’m Not Scared
Silvia Bonucci - Voices from a Time
Gianrico Carofiglio - Involuntary Witness
Christopher Castellani - A Kiss from Maddalena
Elizabeth - The Enchanted April
Leslie Forbes - Waking Raphael
Robert Harris - Pompeii
Simonetta Agnello Hornby - The Almond Picker
Gabrielle Marks - Palermo Story
Anna Monardo - The Courtyard of Dreams
William Rivière - By the Grand Canal
Mary Doria Russell - A Thread of Grace
Jeff Shapiro - Secrets of Sant’Angelo
D. L. Smith - The Miracles of Santo Fico
Susanna Tamaro - Follow Your Heart
Susan Vreeland - The Passion of Artemisia

Japan

Dennis Bock - The Ash Garden
John Hamamura - Color of the Sea
Yasunari Kawabata - The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
Saiichi Maruya - Grass for My Pillow
Sujata Massey - The Floating Girl
Takashi Matsuoka - Autumn Bridge
Lydia Y. Minatoya - The Strangeness of Beauty
Teru Miyamoto - Kinshu = Autumn Brocade
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
     The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Makoto Oda - The Breaking Jewel
Laura Joh Rowland - The Pillow Book of Lady Wisteria
Anna Esaki-Smith - Meeting Luciano
Jeff Talarigo - The Pearl Diver
Gail Tsukiyama - The Samurai’s Garden
Oswald Wynd - The Ginger Tree

Jordan

Laila Halaby - West of the Jordan
Masha Hamilton - Staircase of a Thousand Steps
Diana Abu-Jaber - Arabian Jazz
Soheir Khashoggi - Mosaic

Korea

Sog-Yong Hwang - The Guest
Chang-rae Lee - A Gesture Life
Edward Jae-Suk Lee - The Good Man
Marie Myung-Ok Lee - Somebody’s Daughter
Henry Mynton - The Pachinko Woman
Kyong-ni Pak - Land: A Novel
Frances Park and Ginger Park - To Swim Across the World
Joanna C. Scott - The Lucky Gourd Shop
Mira Stout - One Thousand Chestnut Trees: A Novel of Korea

Mexico

Rudolfo A. Anaya - Bless Me, Ultima
Sandra Benítez - The Night of the Radishes
Denise Chávez - Loving Pedro Infante
Sandra Cisneros - Caramelo: or Puro Cuento
Laura Esquivel - The Law of Love
Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies
Swift as Desire
Carlos Fuentes - The Eagle’s Throne
The Years with Laura Diaz
Angeles Mastretta - Women with Big Eyes
Montserrat Fontes - Dreams of the Centaur
Carlos Montemayor - Gambusino
Paco Ignacio Taibo - Just Passing Through
Luis Alberto Urrea - The Hummingbird’s Daughter

Morocco

Tahar Ben Jelloun - The Last Friend
Laila Lalami - Hope & Other Dangerous Pursuits

Native Americans

Sherman Alexie - The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Reservation Blues
The Toughest Indian in the World
Michael Dorris - A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Louise Erdrich - The Antelope Wife
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
The Master Butchers
Singing Club
The Painted Drum
Tracks
N. Scott Momaday - House Made of Dawn
Leslie Marmon Silko - Ceremony
Susan Power - The Grass Dancer
Roofwalker
James Welch - Fools Crow
   The Heartsong of Charging
Elk

Nigeria

Chinua Achebe - Arrow of God
Things Fall Apart
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus
Helon Habila - Waiting for an Angel
Buchi Emecheta - Kehinde
Helen Oyeyemi - The Icarus Girl

Pakistan

Hina Haq - Sadika’s Way: A Novel of Pakistan and America
Uzma Aslam Khan - Trespassing
Kamila Shamsie - Broken Verses
Suzanne Fisher Staples - Haveli

Palestine

Shmuel Yosef Agnon - Only Yesterday
Miriam Cooke - Hayati, My Life
Naomi Shihab Nye - Habibi
Sahar Khalifah - Wild Thorns
Aharon Megged - Mandrakes from the Holy Land
Jonathan Wilson - A Palestine Affair

Peru

Mario Vargas Llosa - The Feast of the Goat

Poland

Michael André Bernstein - Conspirators
Helaine G. Helmreich - The Chimney Tree
Marisa Kantor Stark - Bring Us the Old People
James Conroyd Martin - Push Not the River
Lilian Nattel - The River Midnight
Uri Orlev - Run Boy, Run
Chawa Rosenfarb - Bociany
Tomek Tryzna - Miss Nobody

Portugal

Azhar Abidi - Passarola Rising
António Lobo Antunes - The Return of the Caravels
Mário de Carvalho - A God Strolling in the Cool of the Evening
Lídia Jorge - The Painter of Birds
José Saramago - All the Names
Blindness
The Cave
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Seeing

Puerto Rico

Judith Ortiz Cofer - The Meaning of Consuelo
Rosario Ferré - Eccentric Neighborhoods
Flight of the Swan
The House on the Lagoon
Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá - The Renunciation
Magali García Ramis - Happy Days, Uncle Sergio
Esmeralda Santiago - América’s Dream

Russia

Mikhail Afanas’evich Bulgakov - Black Snow: A Theatrical Novel
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - The Story of a Nobody
Debra Dean - The Madonnas of Leningrad
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Helen Dunmore - The Siege
Olga Grushin - The Dream Life of Sukhanov
John Le Carré - The Russia House
Andrei Makine - Dreams of My Russian Summers
Music of a Life
The Woman Who Waited
Prince Michel of Greece - The White Night of St. Petersburg
Viktor Pelevin - Buddha’s Little Finger
Edward Rutherfurd - Russka: The Novel of Russia
Gillian Slovo - Ice Road
Martin Cruz Smith - Red Square
Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn - November 1916
     One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev - Fathers and Sons
Irene Zabytko - The Sky Unwashed

Saudi Arabia

Bandula Chandraratna - An Eye for an Eye
Soheir Khashoggi - Mirage

Senegal

Mariama Bâ - So Long a Letter
Somalia
Nuruddin Farah - Links
Maps
Secrets

South Africa

J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace
Achmat Dangor - Bitter Fruit
Tony Eprile - The Persistence of Memory
Giles Foden - Ladysmith
Lisa Fugard - Skinner’s Drift
Damon Galgut - The Good Doctor
The Quarry
Linzi Alex Glass - The Year the Gypsies Came
Nadine Gordimer - None to Accompany Me
Pamela Jooste - People Like Ourselves
Sindiwe Magona - Mother to Mother
James A. Michener - The Covenant
Marlene Van Niekerk - Triomf
Zakes Mda - The Madonna of Excelsior
Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
Too Late the Phalarope

Spain

Radwá Àshur - Granada
Javier Cercas - Soldiers of Salamis
Mercedes Deambrosis - Milagrosa
Peter Grandbois - The Gravedigger
Julio Llamazares - The Yellow Rain
Eduardo Mendoza - A Light Comedy
Baltasar Porcel - Springs and Autumns
Arturo Peréz-Reverte - Captain Alatriste
Mercè Rodoreda - A Broken Mirror = Mirall Trencat
Carlos Ruiz Zafón - The Shadow of the Wind

Sri Lanka ~ Ceylon

Michelle De Kretser - The Hamilton Case
Edie Meidav - The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon
Karen Roberts - The Flower Boy
Shyam Selvadurai - Cinnamon Gardens
Funny Boy
Ambalavaner Sivanandan - When Memory Dies

Tanzania

Abdulrazak Gurnah - By the Sea

Tibet

Alai - Red Poppies
Jonathan Falla - Blue Poppies
James Hilton - Lost Horizon
Charlotte Painter - Conjuring Tibet
Eliot Pattison - The Skull Mantra
Tshe-Rin-Dban-Rygal - The Tale of the Incomparable Prince
Xinran - Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

Trinidad

Roslyn Carrington - A Thirst for Rain
Oonya Kempadoo - Tide Running
Rabindranath Maharaj - A Perfect Pledge
Elizabeth Nunez - Bruised Hibiscus
Earl Lovelace - The Dragon Can’t Dance
Salt
Lawrence Scott - Night Calypso

Turkey

Panos Karnezis - The Maze
Frances Kazan - Halide’s Gift
Orhan Pamuk - My Name Is Red
The New Life
Snow
Robert Rosenberg - This Is Not Civilization

Vietnam

Fred Bonnie - Thanh Ho Delivers
Thu Huong Duong - Beyond Illusions
Memories of a Pure Spring
Kien Nguyen - Le Colonial
The Tapestries

Yugoslavia

Nadja Tesich - Native Land
Aleksandar Tišma - The Book of Blam

Zimbabwe

J. Nozipo Nkosana Maraire - Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Owen Sheers - The Dust Diaries: Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps
Yvonne Vera - Butterfly Burning

 
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