I'm looking for recommendations on contemporary authors/books from the Middle East and South East Asia in the genres of poetry, fiction novels and short stories. Drop your favorite must-read!
>>25456456this region has never produced a single book worth reading
>>25456493Not even poetry?
>>25456456The Bible
>>25456456these are good
>>25456456>I'm looking for recommendations on contemporary authors/books from the Americas and Eastern Europe in the genres of poetry, fiction novels and short stories. Drop your favorite must-read!This is what you sound like.
>>25456493Not a single book from outside the region holds a candle to even a mediocre book from the Arab World alone, let alone the rest of the Middle East.
>>25457795I just want to read non western non northern books
>>25456456Read Men in the Sun by Ghassan KanafaniThe QuranNahj Al-BalaghaAl-Sahiffa Al-SajjadiyyaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihAnything by Naguib MahfouzAnything by Mahmoud DarwishForgive me anon as I have read them all in Arabic and have no idea if the translations are good, or if they even exist. But in general translating from Arabic to English is like explaining philosophy to a baby. You should spend 4 years learning Arabic and then several more months of research trying to understand the intricacies of the dialects of each book you read.
>>25457997Thanks! I'm keeping tabs on Ghassan Kanafani, Tayeb Salih, Naguib Mahfouz and Mahmoud Darwish and their english/spanish editions. I'm more into fiction novels or non fiction works that allow me to understand their contemporary middle eastern societies.
>>25457997This is a list of books to skip? Christ alive.
>>25459706Which ones do you recommend?
>>25456456My ex-boyfriend, who speaks Arabic because his father is from Syria, says there is some excellent homoerotic Arabic poetry.
>>25457997It seems to everyone that his own mother tongue is infinitely more sophisticated than other languages.
