Posted by Lale on 23/10/2007, 13:04:47, in reply to "2008 Ballot - Please vote by October 27" Jane Austen (English, 1775-1817) Ivan Turgenev (Russian, 1818-1883) Giovanni Verga (Italian, 1840-1922) Henry James (American, 1843-1916) Miguel de Unamuno (Spanish, 1864-1936) Nikos Kazantzakis (Greek, 1883-1957) Juan Rulfo (Mexican, 1917-1986) Mario Vargas Llosa (Peruvian, b. 1936) Salman Rushdie (Indian writing in English, b. 1947) Vincent Lam (Canadian, b. 1974)
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Persuasion (1817 posthumous, 272pp) Never read a Jane Austen in my life (Watched all the movies), this is a good time.
Home of the Gentry (1858, 208pp)
The Malavoglias (also translated as The House by the Medlar Tree, 1881, 275pp)
The Ambassadors (1903, 528pp)It was between "The Ambassadors" and "A Confederacy of Duncey", I am willing to make appropriate changes if votes are tied.
Mist (Spanish: Niebla , 1914, 352pp)
Sandor Marai (Hungarian, 1900-1989)
Embers (1942, 224pp)
Zorba the Greek (1946, 335pp)
Pedro P�ramo (1955, 254pp)
Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977, 384pp)
Midnight's Children (1981, 560pp, Booker Prize, James Tait Black Prize)
Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures (2006, 362pp, Giller Prize)
Cormac McCarthy (American, b. 1933)
The Road (2006, 287pp, Pulitzer Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize)
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