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"A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's year-long journey through a book from every country. Following an impulse to read more internationally, journalist Ann Morgan undertook first to define "the world" and then to find a story from each of 196 nations. Tireless in her quest and assisted by generous, far-flung strangers, Morgan discovered not only a treasury of world literature but also the keys to unlock it. Whether considering the difficulties faced by writers in developing nations, movingly illustrated by Burundian Marie-Thérese Toyi's Weep Not, Refugee; tracing the use of local myths in the fantastically successful Samoan YA series Telesa; delving into questions of censorship and propaganda while sourcing a title from North Korea; or simply getting hold of The Corsair, the first Qatari novel to be translated into English, Morgan illuminates with wit, warmth, and insight how stories are written the world over and how place-geographical, historical, virtual-shapes the books we read and write" --
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National charateristics in literature, Translations into English, Publishing, Publishers and publishing, English literature, Geography and literature, Books and reading, Literature, Women journalists, Literature and the Internet, Literature and geography, Literature publishing, National characteristics in literature, Literature, translations into englishPeople
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The world between two covers: reading the globe
2015
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1631490672 9781631490675
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World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe
2015, Liveright Publishing Corporation
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1631490680 9781631490682
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"First published in Great Britain under the title Reading the world: confessions of a literary explorer"--Title-page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324)
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