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The world has endless amounts of fantastic writers telling al kinds of stories.

Translated You could try some of the complex, dark crime fiction coming out of Scandi- Books navia with authors like Jo Nesbo (Norwegian) or Steig Larsen (Sweden).

There’s fantastic world of magical real- ism from classic Latin American authors like Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude) from Colom- bia and Jorge Luis Borges from Ar- gentina to modern day masters like Ha- ruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore) from Japan. Authors like Stanislav Lem (Russia), Cixin Liu (), and Michael Ende (Germany) bring their unique cultural perspectives to the worlds of Sci-Fi and Fantasy.

Oshkosh Public Library There are noir detective stories from 106 Washington Ave. Japan, Last winter, we parted by Fumi- nori Nakamura and Out by Natsuo Oshkosh, WI 54901

Kirino, as well as the Czech Republic, Phone: 920.236.5205 Innocence; or, murder on Steep Street by E-mail: Heda Margolius Kovaly. [email protected] Here are some reading suggestions to help you complete the “Translated” You can also find powerful stories square on your Summer Reading Bin- about family from Egyt (The Automobile go card! Club of Egypt by Alaa Al Aswany), Cu- ba (Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García), and Korea (Please look after mom : a novel by Kyung-sook Shin). 2016 Latin America The Neverending Story / Michael Ende Scandinavia (Germany) One Hundred Years of Solitude by Ga- The Girl with the dragon tattoo / briel García Márquez (Columbia) Zorba the Greek / by Nikos Kazantzakis by Stieg Larsen (Sweden) (Greece) Delirium by Laura Restrepo My struggle / Karl Ove Knaus- (Columbia) gaard (Norway) Dreaming in Cuban / Cristina García. The three-body problem / Cixin Liu (China) The ice princess / Camilla Läck- (Cuba) Kafka on the shore / Haruki Murakami berg (Sweden) Japanese Lover: a novel / Isabel Al- (Japan) Before I burn / Gaute Heivoll lende.(Chile) : a novel / Mo Yan (China) (Norway) In the time of the butterflies / Julia To live : a novel / Yu Hua (China) The redeemer / Jo Nesbø. Alvarez. (Dominican Republic ) (Norway) Last winter, we parted : a novel / Fuminori The alchemist / Paulo Coelho (Brazil) Nakamura (Japan) The keeper of lost causes / Jussi The sound of things falling / Juan Ga- Adler-Olsen (Denmark) Out / Natsuo Kirino (Japan) briel (Columbia)

Please look after mom : a novel / by Kyung- The story of my teeth / Valeria Luiselli sook Shin (Korea) Middle East (Mexico) Drifting house / Krys Lee. (Korea) One thousand and one nights : a Twenty love poems and a song of des- retelling of the beloved classic / pair / (Chile) Paradise of the blind / Dương Thu Hương Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebenon) Collected fictions / Jorge Luis Borges (Vietnam) My name is Red / (Argentina) The unwanted : a memoir / Kien Nguyen. (Turky) The savage detectives / Roberto Bo- (Vietnam) The Automobile Club of Egypt / laño (Chile) Memories of a pure spring / Duong Thu Hu- Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt) Western Europe ong (Vietnam) The bastard of Istanbul / Elif The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Wolf totem : a novel / Jiang Rong (Malaysia) Shafak.(Turkey ) Dumas (France) Ilustrado / Miguel Syjuco.(Philippines) Palace walk / Swann's way / Marcel Proust (France) Eastern Europe (Egypt) The trial / (Germany) Notes on the Underground by Fyodor Dosto- The hilltop : a novel / Assaf Gavron (Isreal) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri yevsky (Russia) (Italy) Innocence; or, murder on Steep Street / To the end of the land / David Grossman (Isreal) Magic Mountain by Heda Margolius Kovaly (Czech Republic) (Germany) Dead souls / Nikolai Gogol (Russian) Palace of desire / Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt) The stranger / (France) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by The land of green plums / Herta (Russia) Yacoubian building / Alaa Al As- Müller (Germany) wany (Egypt) Solaris by Stanislav Lem (Russia) The dinner : a novel / Herman Koch (Netherlands) The master and Margarita / Mikhail Bulga- kov (Russia)