Posted by Guillermo Maynez
on 20/10/2009, 16:49:46, in reply to "Re: my nominations"
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OK, here are my ten nominations:
1. Roberto Bolano, "The Savage Detectives", for reasons already exposed by Steven.
2. Laurence Sterne, "A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy". I love Tristram Shandy and I'm sure a travel book by the crazy Sterne will be delightful.
3. E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View". Supposedly the most romantic and optimistic novel of Forster, it nevertheless deals with repressed sexuality in early XX Century (and it's set in Florence).
4. Hermann Melville, "Typee". Based on a true adventure suffered by Melville and a comrade, left away on a Southern Pacific island for mutiny.
5. Graham Greene, "The Heart of the Matter". Set in Africa, where a good man is put to the test, to the limits of his conscience.
6. Alejo Carpentier, "The Kingdom of this World". Set in Haiti right after independence from France, it is supposedly fairly dense in style (Faulkner-like?), but very rewarding. Carpentier was Cuban.
7. Simon Vestsdijk, "The Garden where the Brass Band Played". Reminiscences of a Dutch man, about a love affair between a wealthy young man and the daughter of a music band leader.
8. Miroslav Krleza, "The Return of Phillip Latinowicz". Old Croatian painter returns from the cosmopolitan Europe to his small town, reflecting on his past life.
9. Leonardo Sciascia, "The Day of the Owl". The original Sicilian mafia novel, written ages before The Godfather or the Sopranos.
10. Amitav Ghosh, "The Glass Palace". An epic novel about the Indian diaspora in Malaya, Indonesia, and Southeastern Asia.
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: Ok, no problem. If something else occurs to me before
: the end of nominating, I'll let you know. Otherwise,
: just assume I'm done.
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