Nike's TBR Through the World - Challenge

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1) France Les Noces barbares by Yann Queffélec
2) Ucraine Fiddler on the Roof by Sholem Aleykhem
3) India Fire On The Mountain by Anita Desai
4) Greece Systrarna på Kreta by Anna-Maria Ekblad
5) Holland Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
6) France Mademoiselle de Scuderi by E.T.A. Hoffmann
7) Italy (or is it set in Spain?) Night's Lies by Gesualdo Bufalino
8) Norway Det är hos mig han har varit by Eva Seeberg
9) Mexico Gli aztechi by Jacques Soustelle
10) Sovjet Union Den azurblå stäppen by Mikhail Sholokhov
11) Egypt Adrift on the Nile by Naguib Mahfouz
12) Turkey The White Castle by Orhan Pamuk
13) Italy (Sicily) Och plötsligt är det afton by Salvatore Quasimodo
14) Iran Vem dödade ayatolla Kanuni?/Mais qui a tué l'ayatollah Kanuni ? by Naïri Nahapétian
15) Germany Gertrud by Hermann Hesse
16) Spain La familia de Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela
17) Zimbabwe An Elegy for Easterly: Stories by Petina Gappah
18) Brasilien Guldfruktens land/São Jorge dos Ilhéus by Jorge Amado
19) Tanzania and Zaire Mai betyder vatten by Kayo Mpoyi
20) Japan Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
21) Iceland Kvinna i grönt by Arnaldur Indriðason
22) Russia Innocent Stories, Satires In Prose by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
23) Vietnam Skogens salt by Nguyễn Huy Thiệp
24) England Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing



Scoring is as follows:

1 point each for reading 1st and 2nd book
2 points each for 3rd and 4th book
3 points each for 5th and 6th book
4 points each for 7th and 8th book
5 points each for books 9-12

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January nr 15:

I'm heading to Germany to read
Gertrud by Hermann Hesse

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February nr 10:

I'm travelling to Russia to Den azurblå stäppen ="The Azure Taiga" by Mikhail Sholokhov

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I really liked by Hermann Hesse

But I feel frustrated over the prejudices about people with some mobility difficulties (and of course with other kind of difficulties), that it was so obvious that a person walking with a stick was doomed. But it is beautifully written and here is my short review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Read my review of Den azurblå stäppen/Tales of the Don here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Heavy reading, especially since I by a mere coincidence started reading it just a few days before the war in Ukraine and I didn't even know that the book depicts the war in the very same region one hundred years ago. A most incredible coincidence.