[Dominus]

In a few weeks in my world literature class, we're getting a chance to pick a book! Hallelujah!!! This is really good, because this way I'll actually read a good book for class.

Now, my point. Beings it is a world lit. class, the author of my book needs to be of a nationality other than Britsh or American, so, I really need your advice on a good foreign (but not British) author that I can read, preferably one with a good stand alone book or a duology or trilogy so that I can get done.

Any of your suggestions would be really helpful, so I just hope that I can get the book(s) easily.

Thanks a lot! http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif http://www.sffworld.com/ubb/smile.gif

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[Lady Fox]

Sara Douglass - she is Australian. Her book The Wayfarer Redemption is fabulous, IMO. I'm not sure where you are, so I'll let you know that it was published under the title Battle Axe in UK, Canada, and Australia. It's the first of a trilogy. The other two books are Enchanter and StarMan. Enchanter is available in the US, but StarMan is not yet. However, it is available in UK and Canada. Wayfarer is a strong enough book that is can be read as a stand alone, I think.

[Llama]

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Fenn628]

Sophies World by Jostein Gaarder.

excellent stand alone novel. check it out here... sophies world (http://shop.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=19BJMM4VHN&mscssid=BM2XXVJWDGX58PPXN99JCREW7P2M5DDE&isbn=0425152251)

[JohnH]

Well Guy Gavriel Kay is Canadian.

I would say Gabriel Garcia Marquez would be a good choice, but I would go with 'Love in the Time of Cholera'. I consider that his best and most accesible work.

Parfum by Suskind is quite good. Perez-Reverte writes wonderful suspense books steeped in history even when based in contemporary times.

[ookey]

If you're looking for a classic type here are a few to consider that are non british or american:
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Don Quixote by Cervantes
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Dostoevsky

[Shehzad]

Ooooh, The Metamorphosis!! Kafka rules!

[Warewolf]

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

All enjoyable reads.

[Sammie]

I'd second :
The Three Musketeers
Sophie's World

[Barbarossa]

I would also second the three musketeers,

also "The loyal subject" by Heinrich Mann

"The tin drum" by Günther Grass
(While not exactly fantasy it's at least "magical realism" and a noble prize winner to boot)

"The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco
One of the best historical novels about the middle ages ever (and that Sean Connery movie leaves out the (more interesting) half)

"The Long ships" by Frans Bengtson a Skandinavian classic. Of all the above books the most entertaining to read, but still world literature (and yes I rate it even more entertaining than three musketeers)