Posted by Sterling on 11/9/2011, 22:52:12, in reply to "Re: Nominations for 2012"
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What an interesting list, Steven! The only one I have even heard of is The House of Spirits, which I have not read (but have intended to read). Very intriguing. I look forward to the contributions from our other friends. I have high hopes for an excellent year!
--Previous Message--
: I was hoping for Hard Times, but it looks like The
: Mystery of Edwin Drood will be--unless Joffre
: objects--my Dickens nomination.
:
: I really had nothing else in mind to nominate, and
: what's been nominated so far looks great, but there
: was the comment about "too old and too
: English." And here I go with Charles Dickens, the
: epitome of the "dead European white male."
:
: So I took it as a challenge to come up with nine
: different authors who are the antithesis of Dickens.
:
: -- none of them is from western Europe or the US
: -- all of them write in a language other than English
: -- each of them is very much alive
: -- and they are all women
:
: Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
: (Vietnamese)
: A young girl experiences the conflict between old
: customs and a new regime in communist Hanoi.
:
: The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
: (Chilean)
: A family saga explores past and present in
: post-colonial Chile. (If I am the only one who hasn’t
: already read this, then we can certainly substitute
: another Allende novel.)
:
: Women without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by
: Shahrnush Parsipur (Iranian)
: The theme of gender oppression explored through the
: voices of five women.
:
: Wild Thorns by Sahar Kalifeh (Palestinian)
: Relates the effect on Palestinian families of the
: Israeli occupation of the West Bank.
:
: The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya (Russian)
: This dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic Russia uses
: many literary allusions. The author is Leo’s
: great-grand niece.
:
: Here’s to You, Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska
: (Mexican)
: A fact-based novel following the life of a poor but
: defiant woman through the key events of 20th century
: Mexico.
:
: Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan (Israeli writing
: in Hebrew)
: Two teenage Jewish girls in turn-of-the-century Persia
: are desperate for husbands.
:
: The Dark Bride by Laura Restrepo (Colombian)
: The story of a prostitute in a Columbian oil town
: explores the effects of globalization.
:
: The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic
: (Croatian)
: Yugoslav expatriates in Amsterdam cope with the
: disintegration of their homeland.
:
: There were many other candidates I reluctantly had to
: pass over. One of them I badly wanted to include was
: the Turkish writer Elif Shafak. Unfortunately, Flea
: Palace, the novel I wanted to nominate, is out of
: print. Her more famous novel, The Bastard of Istanbul,
: was written in English, so it didn't meet my criterion
: of being a work in translation.
:
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