Your favorite book originally written in your native language

Hello all, had an idea to collect good books originally written in different languages (and therefore from around the world). Obviously large part of the world is natively English, Spanish, French speaking, so if you belong to one of those, you may want to go with an author from your native country.

I guess it's not really important about the genre, fiction vs non-fiction and so on.

Advertise your local writing! With the level of globalization these days, chances that a book is translated into one of the big languages are large, I would assume.

Let me start. For Serbian, I'd have to go with these two:

– Ivo Andrić – The bridge on Drina: only Nobel prize winner from our country, for this very book. It's a time lapse, chronicle of a city called Višegrad. People inside of it, their lives, changing of empires fighting over the city and so on.

Đorđe Lebović – Semper Idem: an autobiography of a man who grew up in a Jewish family while the Nazi power grew in Europe. He guides the reader, with the beautiful narration, looking at the world through innocent kids eyes, all while his world gets ever gloomier. It's set in Sombor, northern Serbia, a place that is traditionally a melting pot of religions and nationalities… Serbians, Croatians, Hungarians, Germans, Slovaka, etc.

Fire away!