The Booktrekker

READ The Inhabited Woman , written by Gioconda Belli and translated by Kathleen March, tells the story of Lavinia Alarc ó n, a well-off, edu...

  READ Oh, my. I don’t even know where to begin with the book I read for New Zealand. The Bone People , by Maori author Keri Hulme, took a l...

  READ The book I selected for the Netherlands, The Following Story , written by Cees Nooteboom and translated by Ina Rilke, was something o...

  READ Buddha’s Orphans , by Samrat Upadhyay, tells the story of a baby who is abandoned by his desperate mother in a public area in Kathman...

READ Nauru is a tiny island in the South Pacific with a population of fewer than 13,000 people. It’s no wonder, then, that finding a book to...

  READ For Namibia, a country in southern Africa, I read The Purple Violet of Oshaantu , by Neshani Andreas. The title character, Meme Kauna...

  READ The book I chose for Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, was a feast for the senses. Smile as They Bow , written by Ni Ni Yu and transl...