INTERNATIONAL READING ROAD: 2008-2009
The works listed below represent the writings of international renowed authors from six continents. They were either born or raised in a specific nation state of that continet, or their novel is set in that particular region of the world, or the novel is about the region itself.
Select three works from the list below, each one from a different geographic region. Find a unifying theme amongst the three novels and write a
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AFRICA 
Adichi, Chimamanda Ngozi. Purple Hibiscus (Nigeria)
Kingsolver, Barbara. Poisonwood Bible (Congo)
Matar, H. In the Country of Men (Libya)
ASIA 
Badami, Anita Rau. Can you hear the Nightbird Call? (India)
Dai Sijie. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (China)
See, Lisa. Dragon Bones (China)
Swarup, Vikas. Q & A (India)
AUSTRALIA & OCEANIA 
Carey, Peter. The True History of the Kelly Gang (Australia)
Grenville, Kate. The Secret River (Australia)
Jones, Lloyd. Mr. Pip (Oceania)
CENTRAL AMERICA/CARIBBEAN 
Alvarez, Julia. How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent (Dominican Republic)
Greene, Grahame. Our Man in Havana (Cuba)
Levy, Andrea. Small Island (Jamaica)
EUROPE 
Barnes, Julian. Arthur and George (England)
Behrens, Peter. The Law of Dreams (Ireland)
Hoeg, Peter. Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow (Denmark/Greenland)
Michaels, Ann. Fugitive Pieces (Poland/Greece)
MIDDLE-EAST 
Hosseini, K. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Afghanistan)
Khadra, Yasmina. The Attack (Palestine/Israel)
Ravel, Edeet. Look For Me (Israel/Palestine)
NORTH AMERICA 
Archer, Jeffrey. Kane and Able (USA)
Boyden, Joseph. Three Day Road (Canada)
Fitzgerald, F.Scott The Great Gatsby (USA)
Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany (USA)
Otsuka, J. When the Emperor was Divine (USA)
SOUTH AMERICA 
Allende, I. Zorro (California/Mexico)
Fuentes, C. The Old Gringo (Mexico)
Wilder, Thornton. The Bridge of San Louis Rey (Peru)
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