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Viv's Random Travel Challenge 2018
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Australia: Force of Nature by Jane Harper
Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Syria: The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek
Cameroon Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Samoa Afakasi Woman by Lani Wendt Young (98 pages) / Inheritance by Jenny Pattrick / They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel
Nepal In the Land of No Right Angles by Daphne Beal / Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination by Robert Macfarlane
Laos: The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Honduras A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Óscar Martínez
Pakistan Kartography by Kamila Shamsie / The Shadow of the Crescent Moon by Fatima Bhutto
Cambodia Cambodian Folk Stories from the Gatiloke / Phnom Penh Noir / In the Shadow of the Banyan
Paraguay The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A Novel by Anne Enright
24 February 2018Country: SYRIA (setting and author)
The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek
Translated by Nashwa Gowanlock and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
This was not an easy read but it has really helped me to understand the origins of the war in Syria. It's absolutely terrifying and really quite heart breaking.
Read in January 2018Country: AUSTRALIA (setting and author)
The Dry by Jane Harper
Really enjoyable mystery, with incredibly strong sense of setting/place.
I over-challenged myself a bit in 2018 so never got to Nepal or Honduras. Will try and fit them in in 2019 :-)
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Australia The Dry by Jane Harper
Zimbabwe: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Syria The Crossing: My Journey to the Shattered Heart of Syria by Samar Yazbek
Cameroon: Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Samoa They Who Do Not Grieve by Sia Figiel
Nepal
Laos The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Honduras
Pakistan Kartography by Kamila Shamsie
Cambodia Death in the Rainy Season by Anna Jaquiery
Paraguay The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch: A Novel by Anne Enright