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Books set in other cultures

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FairyPenguin · 12/02/2017 15:19

I really enjoy reading books that are set in other cultures and ways of life, both current and historical. I love finding out about how other people live/lived.

For example, I have liked:

The Kite Runner
The Help
Memoirs of a Geisha
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Wild Swans
Plain Truth (Amish community)
Faye Kellerman books (Jewish family)
Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel
Nothing To Envy (North Korea true stories)

Also, I read a book set within a Quaker community which I was very interesting (I can't remember the title!).

Can anyone recommend other books that I might like, please? Thanks!

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BarchesterFlowers · 12/02/2017 18:29

Oh forgot Orhan Pamuk's books which I loved enough to read more than once.

BarchesterFlowers · 12/02/2017 18:27

Two Wings of a Nightingale.

Glass Palace.

Lots more if I could be bothered to get up and go and look Grin, I have just bought Paul Scott's Raj Quartet but it hasn't arrived yet.

Whattodo23 · 12/02/2017 18:23

A thousand splendid suns

Sadik · 12/02/2017 18:23

Also, a bit different but if you have young children then the Anna Hibiscus series by Atinuke are lovely to read aloud - short-ish chapter books all about a little girl living in an (un-named) African country.

Sadik · 12/02/2017 18:20

Peter Hessler's books about living in China, especially the first one (River Town)
Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev (Russia)

AristotlesTrousers · 12/02/2017 18:13

I'll probably think of loads more, but off the top of my head:

The Colour Puple
The Joy Luck Club
Books by Victoria Hislop