OK, so I went a little overboard on this one. I'm looking forward to what others post for this meme, since I'm always looking for international reads. If you want to see what other bloggers posted, check out this link.
The first three on my list came to mind easily, I had to look up the rest on my Library Thing account to jog my memory. Except for as noted, the author is from the country the book is set in.
Fiction
Golden Scales by Parker Bilal
Genre: mystery (first in a series)
Setting: Egypt; author is of British & Sudanese descent
A golden age & The good Muslim by Tamima Anam
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: East Pakistan/Bangladesh during & after war for independence
The hired man by Aminatta Forna
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: Eastern Europe; author is Scottish & Sierra Leone ish?
Dust by Yvonne A. Owuor
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: Kenya
The garden of evening mists by Tan Twan Eng
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: Malaysia
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: India, China
A Persian Requiem by Simin Daneshvar, translated by Roxane Zand
Genre: historical fiction
Setting: Iran
Genre: historical fiction
Author is of Uruguayan descent.
Genre: science fiction
(set during the cultural revolution, this novel won the Hugo for best novel in 2015.)
(set during the cultural revolution, this novel won the Hugo for best novel in 2015.)
Setting: China
Non fiction
Genre: narrative nonfiction
Setting: India; follows several families in a slum near the Mumbai airport.
The author is an investigative reporter who writes on poverty in the US.
Born & raised in the US, Boo is a Pulitzer winner & this book reads easily.
Genre: non fiction
I found this a fascinating description of the history of the Qu'ran & it's interpretation from an academic believer's perspective. I include it since the Qu'ran originated in what we now know as Saudi Arabia, and the academic study of this scripture was pioneered and continues to be taught more outside the US than in.
If the oceans were ink: an unlikely friendship and a journey to the heart of the Koran by Caria Power
Genre: memoir
Setting: England & India
The author is a US citizen; her parents were Quaker & Jewish. She met Sheikhh Mohammad Akram Nadwi, an Indian imam living in England while they were both at Oxford University. This book chronicles her study of the Koran over one year with Nadwi, as well as her description of his training & activities as an imam.
Genre: memoir
Setting: Egypt
The author is a US citizen. The book describes meeting her husband and converting to Islam while living in Egypt.
