Posted by Steven
on 20/10/2009, 21:42:52, in reply to "Re: my nominations"
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Thanks Guillermo. This is going to be a hard decision. There hasn't been a book nominated yet that I didn't want to read.
The only new edition of The Return of Philip Latinowicz for sale at Amazon and B&N is a hardback that costs $64.00, so I'm going to annotate this one "limited availability." As with The Ripening Seed, those who don't alread have it may want to check on the availability of used copies before they vote for it.
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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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