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Just finished The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It was interesting to see Afghanistan through the eyes of someone looking back on his childhood, and it was far better history-wise than any (biased) news story that classifies people into all good or all bad. It was missing a little subtlety now and then, but I'd definitly recommend it.

A good book about Cambodia is First They Killed My Father. I dont remember who it's by, but it was requred reading for world cultures.

I recommend stuff by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I recently finished A Pale View of the Hills and it was great.

Jun Lei,

Do you know the chinese name of Kazuo Ishigiro?
Is that his latest book? He writes many good and mind-provoking books...update me pls...

I am recently looking for a book entitled "The Aran Islands". Anyone heard of it?

Thanks and have a nice day,
Lee

Quoting cikusang

Jun Lei,

Do you know the chinese name of Kazuo Ishigiro?
Is that his latest book? He writes many good and mind-provoking books...update me pls...

I am recently looking for a book entitled "The Aran Islands". Anyone heard of it?

Kazuo Ishiguro: 石黒一雄

A Pale View of the Hills is actually his first novel. He writes in English, and his latest work is Never Let Me Go. His third novel, The Remains of the Day, was turned into a film with Anthony Hopkins & Emma Thompson.

List of Ishiguro works:
A Pale View of Hills, 1982
An Artist of the Floating World, 1986
The Remains of the Day, 1989
The Unconsoled, 1995
When We Were Orphans, 2000
Never Let Me Go, 2005

I googled The Aran Islands and found it was written by John Millington Synge, in 1907. I'm not sure if that's what you're looking for.

That's the book I am looking for...and thanks, Jun Lei...what about 村上春树and大江健三朗？？？These Japanese authors do write good books and 大江健三朗 is one of the ex-Nobel winner.

Thanks.

and FYI, Kazuo Ishigiro is very close to John Irving and V.S. Naipaul: old buddies. They are regarded as 'quality contemporary authors' in British society.

Even though the book i am recommending is supposed to be for academic purposes it as a very easy, hilarious and informative book for everyone that is interested in Africa - especially Cameroon - and the hilarious incidents that can happen to an English anthropologist travelling to Africa for fieldwork.
The book is the following:

"The Innocent Anthropologist.Notes from a Mud Hut", by Nigel Barley.

When British anthropologist Nigel Barley set up home among the Dowayo people in northern Cameroon, he knew how fieldwork should be conducted. Unfortunately, nobody had told the Dowayo. His compulsive, witty account of first fieldwork offers a wonderfully inspiring introduction to the real life of a cultural anthropologist doing research in a Third World area. Both touching and hilarious, Barley’s unconventional story—in which he survived boredom, hostility, disaster, and illness—addresses many critical issues in anthropology and in fieldwork.

Quoting cikusang

That's the book I am looking for...and thanks, Jun Lei...what about 村上春树and大江健三朗？？？These Japanese authors do write good books and 大江健三朗 is one of the ex-Nobel winner.

Thanks.

村上春树 - Haruki Murakami. I also recommend his stuff, I love them.

大江健三朗 - Kenzaburo Oe.

Not interested in the works of John Irving and VS Naipaul.

Just started reading a book by one of my favourite Irish writers, Colm Toibin, called Homage to Barcelona. I'm just a couple of chapters in. So far, its excellent - it really gives you a feel for the city.

Toibin lived there as a young man during some of the city's troubled years in the 70's, and he writes with a deep affection for the city.

It's only about 200 pages....might be a good read for anyone thinking of visiting or just back from Barcelona