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Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship The Blood of Flowers and Rooftops of Tehran are both set in Iran, not any of the "-stan" countries. Presumably, Cracking India is set in India.


message 2: by Melinda (new)

Melinda @Emma,
Cracking India seems to be about the partition of India, which certainly involves Pakistan, so I'll leave it, but I'll delete The Blood of Flowers and Rooftops of Tehran.


message 3: by Meaghan (new)

Meaghan A list of books set in countries ending with just "an" would be longer, needing to include Bhutan, Azerbaijan, Japan, Sudan and South Sudan. To say nothing of countries that just have "an" somewhere in their names! Andorra, Germany, Dominican Republic, anything with "land" in it...


message 4: by Gardenia (new)

Gardenia Plant Midnight's Children is set in India.


message 5: by Jalilah (new)

Jalilah I tried adding this book The Tale of Aypi from Turkmenistan to this list but was unable to


message 6: by Susanna - Censored by GoodReads (last edited Jan 19, 2021 01:12PM) (new)

Susanna - Censored by GoodReads What happened when you tried to add it?

I had no difficulty adding it.


message 7: by Rainbowheart (new)

Rainbowheart Is Kurdistan ok to put on the list? Technically I think it's a region, not a country.


and our prophecy has come true I stan this.


message 9: by Danial (new)

Danial Tanvir in the country of men by hisham matar should be on the list.
he is a great libyan novelist!.


message 10: by BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) (last edited Feb 21, 2022 08:19AM) (new)

BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Danial wrote: "in the country of men by hisham matar should be on the list.
he is a great libyan novelist!."


As it says in the desciption, and as far as I can tell, it is not set in one of the -stan countries?


message 11: by Danial (new)

Danial Tanvir oh okay , it is actually set in libya!.


BookLovingLady (deceased Jan. 25, 2023...) Danial wrote: "oh okay , it is actually set in libya!."

I thought so


message 13: by Danial (new)

Danial Tanvir oh okay , so what do you like to read?.


message 14: by Danial (new)

Danial Tanvir oh okay , so what do you like to read?.


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