Around the World in 80 Books discussion

Post your nominations here for the January group reads. A significant portion of the book must be set in the featured location. We will be reading 3 books:
1) a selection set in Kuwait,
2) an award-winning book set in Central or South America
3) a Pulitzer Prize-winning book set outside of the US or the UK

World Tour*:
Nominate a book set in Kuwait:
Kuwait Bookshelf: https://www.goodreads.com/group/books...
Kuwait Book List: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Award-Winning Books
Here is a ink to various book awards: https://www.goodreads.com/award
1) Nominate an award-winning book set anywhere in Central or South America.
2) Nominate a Pulitzer Prize-winning book set outside of the US or the UK (winner, not a nominee). Can be fiction or non-fiction.

For a list of books we have read in previous months, click here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

**Reminder: Do not nominate your own books or books written by your friends

February already!?!

Here are some options to start with:

For Kuwait:
The Bamboo Stalk by Saud Alsanousi

For award-winning Central or South America:
Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar (National Book Award for Translation, 1967); I’ve heard a lot about this book’s innovative structure, but have never attempted it

For Pulitzer Prize-winning book:
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner; great book from 1995 on the wonders of the Galápagos

1) a selection set in Kuwait
Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

2) an award-winning book set in Central or South America
Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin (Argentinia; Shirley Jackson Award for best novella 2017)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

3) a Pulitzer Prize-winning book set outside of the US or the UK
The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar (Libya; 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Pulitzer Prize-winning book: The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson (set in North Korea).

Kuwait: Yasmeena's Choice: A True Story of War, Rape, Courage and Survival
Pulitzer Prize: The Complete Maus - set in Poland

I nominiate for Award Winning Book in Central or South America:
Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado (Prêmio Jabuti for Romance (1959), Prêmio Machado de Assis, Prêmio Paula Brito, da antiga Prefeitura do Distrito Federal, Prêmio Luísa Cláudia de Sousa, do PEN Clube do Brasil, Prêmio Carmem Dolores Barbosa, da Câmara Brasileira do Livro)

1967 Pulitzer Prize winner set in Kiev

The Fixer by Bernard Malamud

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

Second for Gabriela! It’s been on my to read shelf for years.

- a selection set in Kuwait: Salt Houses by Hala Alyan

- an award-winning book set anywhere in Central or South America: The Queen of Water ( set in Equador, America award)

- a Pulitzer Prize-winning book set outside of the US or the UK: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck ( set in China)