All I need is to find an author from each continent. Seems easy, but the only African author I know of is Ben Okri. A friend gave me 'The Famished Road' as a birthday present, and at the time I did not particularly enjoy it. However, I'm willing to give him another try. Just like I've outgrown Feist, I may find myself growing into Okri this time round.
After some searching on the Internet, I ordered a few books from MPH Online.
So my list goes like this:
- Africa - JM Coetzee (South Africa): Disgrace
- Asia - Orhan Pamuk (Turkey): The Museum of Innocence
- North America - Walter Kirn (USA): Up in the Air
- Europe - Philippa Gregory (UK): The White Queen
- Australasia - none so far. The only Australian books I could find on MPH were either children, teen or cookery books from Australian Women's Weekly.
- South America - haven't started searching yet. I'll probably pick Isabel Allende or Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Although, with Coetzee now being an Australian resident, Gregory actually born in Kenya and Pamuk teaching in US, it all gets to be a big mix-up. So I'll do my challenge based on the locale of the plot, which is more consistent with the above.
The hunt for Australasian books continues...
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