Everybody always talks about how bad sheltering your reading is and how you should read other cultures books but I LOVE classics, and although I do read some South American books I want some other cultural suggestions, I just feel like Asian, Oceanian, African and others are not so mainstream and I just can never seem to find any suggestions, what would you consider “classics” of those continents and can you please suggest me some of them?
by Majestic_Designer148
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Perhaps start with The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu! It’s a Japanese classic
anything by mieko kawakami!! i’ve read all of her books, but breasts and eggs is my favorite. genuinely it changed my life.
I recommend you read anything from Mia Couto, African author.
A fine balance by Mistry
*noli me tángere* by josé rizal (philippines)
*mother spring* by driss chraïbi (morocco, berber culture)
*a grain of wheat* by ngugi wa thiong’o (kenya)
*kokoro* by natsume soseki (japan)
*atheist* by achdiat mihardja (indonesia)
*the savage detectives* by roberto bolaño (mexican book, chilean writer)