Need foreign authors?

Question

i need to read a book by a foreign author for my 101 and im not too fond of reading. im thinking life of pi i heard that was really good. but reccomend me some others preferably about war that rreally interests me

Answer 1

The first two are from New Zealand. The third is from the Ukraine.

The Bone People: A Novel (Paperback)

by Keri Hulme

The Bone People explores the potential within families for both destruction and healing, as well as the great personal costs of the disintegration of individual connections to traditional communities and cultures - in this case, the indigenous Maori culture of New Zealand.

http://www.amazon.com/Bone-People-Novel-...

Once Were Warriors (Paperback)

by Alan Duff

In a Maori ghetto of urban New Zealand, Jake and Beth Heke battle entrenched poverty, racism and other ills that overwhelm their traditional Maori culture.

http://www.amazon.com/Once-Were-Warriors...

White Guard (Hardcover)

by Mikhail Bulgakov

It is set in Kiev during the Russian revolution and tells a story about the war's effect on a middle-class family (not workers).

http://www.amazon.com/White-Guard-Mikhai...

Answer 2

Battle Royale by Roushun Takami.

It's about Japanese kids(they just graduated high school) that get drugged and taken to an island.They find out that they have to kill each other and only have three days. There can only be one kid left by the thrid day, and if there's not, the collars around their necks go BOOM!!! It's a FANTASTIC story(and movie)!!! The two main characters end up falling in love but only one person can survive in the end... PLEASE READ IT!!!

Answer 3

"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque (novel on WWI)

I had to read it in 8th grade, and I was too fond of war novels, but I really enjoyed this one. About a man who enlists with his classmates, as the war was kinda glorified by their teachers. But they face the reality of war on the front. Really good, really interesting. Very interesting perspective too.

Answer 4

If you're not too fond of reading you'll want slightly easiert and naturally gripping books (in which case *nothing* remotely like War and Peace... I strongly suspect no one actually enjoys reading it. Interesting and profound maybe - fun, no)

So accessable foriegn books:

Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche who has the deeply enviable talent of putting across important issues in a easy to read and gripping manner. Particularly the first. Although the second is about war.

http://www.amazon.com/Purple-Hibiscus-Ch...

A Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian, Two Caravans - Marina Lewycka, another very good modern author, and easily readable. Although she was born in Germany and brought up in England, which may not count as foriegn authoress? The first frequently mentions the second world war and - bizarrely - how tractors influenced it (tanks). Which was novel.

http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Trac...

Jung Chang - Wild Swans (although that's an autobiography - and very long). Again, some civil war mentions, but mostly not.

http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Swans-Three-D...

Haruki Murakami - although very bizarre and often doesn't make much sense... maybe less accessable

http://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Shore-Haruki...

Or if you *do* want to be impressive and are prepare to work through more difficult works:

Master and Margharita by Mikhail Bulgakov - Russian, was nearly not published - bit obscure

http://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-O...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - philosophical, but actually incredibaly easy to read, as easy as any of the above, maybe. Although being philosophical, it doesn't really go anywhere...

http://www.amazon.com/Unbearable-Lightne...

Or the more typical foriegn authors: Salman Rushdie, for example (complicated but interesting), Camus (French - "The Outsider" is short, at least, and fairly gripping, and famous), Lolita (interesting, very readable, also a classic) etc.

Answer 5

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy ( warning this book is EXTREMELY long)

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Answer 6

It depends whats foreign to you. where are you from?