As noted in a prior post, this month is a little different. Usually, we curate a list of 6 books from a particular country to choose from. This time, it will be 3 countries.
In the past 8 years since we began our club, we’ve found wonderful books from countries we’ve wanted to read without huge numbers of books available from these areas in English. In these cases as we will now be doing this month, we’ll combine 3 countries into a single list so we’ll still have a good choice of books from which to select. Any country not read will go back into rotation.
For November, our list will include 3 SE Asian countries each with their own cultures & languages across different literary landscapes:
The Republic of the Union of Myanmar (aka Myanmar formerly Burma)
The Lao People's Democratic Republic (aka Laos)
The Kingdom of Cambodia (aka Cambodia)
We also want to thank book club member, Karen Van Drie, who was the only person to successfully suggest a book from a native author from one of tthese countries. She does have a little advantage though since she currently lives in Myanmar.
THE VOTING
You can vote from now until Tues, Oct. 29 11:30PM on which book you’d like the club to read next. (That's NYC time. See this converted to your local time below.)
To participate:
1. Review the books.
2. Then, click here to vote.
We'll publish the anonymous results afterwards.