'World' novel recommendations

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Looking for Christmas present ideas. What do you recommend that is a good novel published in the last few years that gives a great, authentic insight into a non-European country (20th-century historical or present)? Anti-colonialism message would be a positive, but avoiding anti-Christian messaging.

2007 Orange Prize winner Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is about the Biafran War. I found it quite disturbing but then I was supposed to.

Girl with a louding voice

American Dirt

Thank you!

Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga - first in a trilogy, set in Zimbabwe/post-colonial Rhodesia. Not that recently published though - 1980s.

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Set in Ghana.

Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah. Set in Zimbabwe.

Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk - is a Turkish author,

Any book written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche

The Mountains Sing
It's a multi generational story (but not overly long) about the women in a Vietnamese family in the 40s and 70s.

This. It was the best book I read last year, probably one of the best books I've ever read. Absolutely outstanding both for the storytelling but also for the light it shines on a relatively forgotten part of our and Nigeria's history and it's feminism.

Agree also that Nervous Conditions is a very important novel that I think should be taught in schools in the UK. Colonialism, feminism and a bildungsroman. What's not to like?

Another older one (1987) but *The Cost of Sugar by Cynthia McLeod is about Dutch colonialism in South America. Very readable and the best selling novel in Surinam history.

For a much newer novel The Country of Others by Leïla Slimani is a novel based on her French grandmother's experiences after she married a Morrocan soldier after WW2. Loved this, and it's the first of a trilogy, second one is due to comeout next year.

Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov. He is Ukraine's leading novelist, and this was written before the invasion, but after the 2014 invasion of Crimea. It was really loved by my book group. I don't like bleak books or books about war but I liked this.