Read a book set in a country that no longer exists on a map

[Emily]

Country borders change all the time, two countries become one, or a country's name changes.

Some suggestions:

Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon (this is what the play The King and I is based on)
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller (takes place in Rhodesia which now Zimbabwe)
The Golden Bull by Marjorie Cowley (Mesopotamia)

[Nikki]

I think for this one I'm going to give The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera a whirl. It's set in Czechoslovokia which is, as of 1993, Czech Republic and Slovakia.

[Karen]

I read Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, set in Czechoslovakia, now Czechia. I will have to find some commentary on the book to really gain a better understanding.

[Brittany]

I read And I Darken about the Ottoman Empire.