January 30, 2009

Literature

Books I've read in the Peace Corps:
Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War (Deborah Copaken Kogan)
They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague (Slavenka Drakulić)
How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (Slavenka Drakulić)
Tell Them I Didn't Cry: A Young Journalist's Story of Joy, Loss, and Survival in Iraq (Jackie Spinner)
Night (Elie Wiesel)
The Attack (Yasmina Khadra)
Tales of a Female Nomad (Rita Golden Gelman)
The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)
The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo (Paula Huntley)
The Bookseller of Kabul (Åsne Seierstad)
Silk (Alessandro Baricco)
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Macedonia: What does it take to stop a war? (Harvey Pekar and Heather Robertson)

Books in my pile to read in the Peace Corps:
Zlata's Diary (Zlata Filipović)
Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (Robert D. Kaplan)
Everything is Illuminated (Jonathan Safran Foer)
The Prophet (Khalil Gibran)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée (Calixthe Beyala)
Исповед од Харемот (Бранко Миленковиќ)
За Должностите (Марк Тулиј Кикерон)
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