Books written in uncommon languages

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Troll: A Love Story

af Johanna Sinisalo

973 medlemmer

31 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

3 Members: aulsmith, Dilara86, starbox
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Finnish

2

The horse of pride : life in a Breton village

af Pierre-Jakez Helias

166 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: Dilara86, Cynfelyn
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Original language: Breton. Translated into French by the author. The English translation might be based on the French version.

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The Bridge on the Drina

af Ivo Andrić

2,370 medlemmer

67 anmeldelser

4.2

2 Members: Dilara86, starbox
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Serbo-Croatian

4

Wizard of the Crow

af Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

927 medlemmer

17 anmeldelser

4.2

2 Members: Dilara86, spiphany
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Kikuyu/Gĩkũyũ

5

Sunflower

af Gyula Krúdy

296 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

Member: inge87
Forklaringer: inge87: Hungarian

6

The Knight in the Panther's Skin

af Shota Rustaveli

257 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Georgian

7

The Old Man and His Sons

af Heðin Brú

105 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

3.8

2 Members: Dilara86, spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Faroese

8

Ufuldendt april : roman

af Ismaîl Kadaré

692 medlemmer

30 anmeldelser

3.9

2 Members: Dilara86, bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Albanian

9

Obabakoak

af Bernardo Atxaga

657 medlemmer

15 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Basque

10

The Man Who Spoke Snakish

af Andrus Kivirähk

374 medlemmer

22 anmeldelser

4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Original language: Estonian. Translated into French. No English translation as far as I know. ETA: Translated into English in 2015 :-)

11

A Not So Perfect Crime

af Teresa Solana

101 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: inge87
Forklaringer: inge87: Catalan

12

The Ten Thousand Things

af Maria Dermoût

524 medlemmer

17 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: inge87
Forklaringer: inge87: Dutch

13

Manden på øen

af Tomás O'Crohan

432 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Irish

14

Justice Undone

af Thor Vilhjalmsson

46 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Icelandic

15

The Coming

af Andrej Nikolaidis

22 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

½ 3.6

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Montenegrin. A bit of a cheat, really, because like Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and so on it's basically the language that used to be called 'Yugoslavian'.

16

People from Our Side: A Life Story With Photographs and Oral Biography

af Peter Pitseolak

17 medlemmer

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Another slight cheat: The book is written in English, but it's a transcription of Pitseolak's spoken Inuktitut.

17

Satan in Goray

af Isaac Bashevis Singer

612 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Yiddish

18

Rebel in the Soul: A Sacred Text of Ancient Egypt

af Bika Reed

47 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.9

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Egyptian (hieratic)

19

The Gospel of Judas

af Judas Gospel Author

1,010 medlemmer

19 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Coptic

20

Gilgamesh

af Gilgamesh Poet

9,861 medlemmer

119 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Akkadian

21

The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan (Compass)

af Gtsan-smyon He-ru-ka

509 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Tibetan

22

Mahala

af Chris Barnard

14 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.8

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Afrikaans

23

Vain Art of the Fugue

af Dumitru Tsepeneag

85 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.2

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Romanian

24

The dance of Shiva and other tales from India

af Oroon Ghosh

37 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Sanskrit

25

Paradise of the Blind

af Thu Hương Dương

524 medlemmer

16 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: Dilara86

26

Death and the Dervish

af Meša Selimović

499 medlemmer

12 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Serbian

27

Hidden Camera

af Zoran Zivkovic

148 medlemmer

9 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Serbian

28

Grænseland : roman

af Tõnu Õnnepalu

87 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

3.2

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Estonian

29

Things in the Night

af Mati Unt

82 medlemmer

½ 3.3

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Estonian

30

Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians

af Dennis Tedlock

62 medlemmer

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Maybe a bit of a cheat, as no published version of this in the original exists. Translation of live performances in Zuni.

31

Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan

af Anton Hansen Tammsaare

61 medlemmer

4

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Estonian

32

You Do Understand (Slovenian Literature Series)

af Andrej Blatnik

30 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Slovenian

33

Edward Hopper: Poems A Bilingual Edition

af Ernest Farrés

25 medlemmer

½ 2.7

Member: bluepiano
Forklaringer: bluepiano: Catalan

34

The Last Journey of Ago Ymeri

af Bashkim Shehu

7 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

3.2

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Albanian

35

The Strange Bride

af Grace Ogot

7 medlemmer

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Luo

36

City of Ash

af Eugenijus Ališanka

3 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Lithuanian

37

Survivor

af Gopinath Mohanty

3 medlemmer

Member: spiphany
Forklaringer: spiphany: Oriya

38

Fountain and Tomb

af Naguib Mahfouz

949 medlemmer

21 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Arabic

39

Kallocain

af Karin Boye

809 medlemmer

23 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Swedish

40

Nuit

af Tchulpan

2 medlemmer

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Uzbek (translated into French - I don't know whether an English translation exists)

41

Song of Lawino

af Okot P'Bitek

39 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 4.3

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Translated from Acoli into English by the author.

42

Crow Blue

af Adriana Lisboa

43 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Portuguese

43

The Palace of Dreams

af Ismaîl Kadaré

616 medlemmer

18 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Albanian

44

Katalin Street

af Magda Szabó

338 medlemmer

15 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Hungarian

45

The Other City

af Michal Ajvaz

192 medlemmer

8 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Czech

46

Tamas

af Bhisham Sahni

119 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Hindi

47

Cold days

af Tibor Cseres

2 medlemmer

4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Hungarian

48

The Book of Blam

af Aleksandar Tišma

150 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Serbo-Croatian

49

Flaw

af Magdalena Tulli

69 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Polish

50

Basti

af Intizar Husain

157 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Urdu

51

Frie mænd

af Halldór Laxness

2,907 medlemmer

102 anmeldelser

4.2

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Icelandic

52

Place of the Heart

af Steinunn Sigurdardottir

42 medlemmer

1 anmeldelse

4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Icelandic

53

L'altra

af Marta Rojals

94 medlemmer

7 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Catalan

54

Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China

af Rao Pingru

67 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

55

Gourmet and Other Stories of Modern China.

af Wenfu Lu

Member: Dilara86

56

Ghachar Ghochar

af Vivek Shanbhag

457 medlemmer

22 anmeldelser

3.8

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Kannada

57

Doomi Golo―The Hidden Notebooks (African Humanities and the Arts)

af Boubacar Boris Diop

34 medlemmer

2 anmeldelser

4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Originally written in Wolof, translated into French.

58

Homo sapienne : roman

af Niviaq Korneliussen

181 medlemmer

14 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Original in Greenlandic, Danish version written by the author.

59

Stiklingen

af Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir

465 medlemmer

33 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Icelandic

60

Things We Left Unsaid

af Zoya Pirzad

63 medlemmer

3 anmeldelser

½ 3.4

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Persian

61

Mirèio

af Frédéric Mistral

127 medlemmer

5 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Provençal

62

This Earth of Mankind

af Pramoedya Ananta Toer

761 medlemmer

15 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Indonesian

63

The Door

af Magda Szabó

1,800 medlemmer

87 anmeldelser

4.1

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Hungarian

64

Poems New and Collected

af Wisława Szymborska

850 medlemmer

6 anmeldelser

½ 4.4

Member: Dilara86

65

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

af Dubravka Ugrešić

422 medlemmer

22 anmeldelser

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Croatian

66

Traitor

af Shobasakthi

1 medlem

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Tamil

67

Purple Sea

af Ambai

9 medlemmer

½ 4.3

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Tamil

68

Le rêve d'un Groenlandais

af Mathias Storch

13 medlemmer

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Kalaallisut (Greenlandic)

69

One Part Woman

af Perumal Murugan

201 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

½ 3.7

Member: Dilara86

70

Il giardino di cristallo

af Mohsen Makhmalbaf

6 medlemmer

4

Member: Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Original language: Persian. Translated into French and Italian. No English translation, as far as I know.

71

Songs of Kabîr

af Kabir

322 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Hindi/Hindustani
Cynfelyn : With 260m native speakers and 120m L2 speakers, Hindi is hardly an uncommon language!

72

Solaris

af Stanisław Lem

6,556 medlemmer

157 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Polish
Cynfelyn : Polish has 55 million native speakers. Hardly an uncommon language.

73

Brothers

af Yu Hua

450 medlemmer

27 anmeldelser

3.9

Member: Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Chinese
Cynfelyn : Chinese has 1,200,000,000 native speakers. You have to add the number of native English speakers to the number of second language English speakers, PLUS those who speak English as a foreign language before you that sort of figure. By no stretch of the imagination can Chinese be called an uncommon language.

74

Raise the Red Lantern

af Su Tong

401 medlemmer

4 anmeldelser

½ 3.5

Member: Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Forklaringer: Dilara86: Chinese
Cynfelyn : Chinese, uncommon? No. Mandarin alone has more native speakers than the next two commonest languages, Spanish and English, combined.

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