Air miles are cursed. I say that the best way to know the joy and complexity of our world is through novels PushPinder Khaneka
DEar reader, do your shelves outweigh under the weight of books by dead white people? Do you slide your eyes when mentioning foreign imagination? Does your diet to read vibrant flavors from Africa, Asia and Latin America? Restricting your reading of novels from Europe and North America is similar to going to a Mexican buffet everything you can eat and eat tortilla. Why this?
I got to know countries in the global south through literature. Be an attractive traveler, the addict of current events and the thirsty reader led me to read books from all over the world. The book that made me more than literature was to open the door to another country, Gabriel Garcia Marquis was a hundred years of isolation, and a wonderful realistic ride through Colombia’s wealth and calamities. Ultimately, a cocktail of wonders, wish, and wandering, inspired me to write a book about the joy of seeing the world through books.
It is easy to stick near a literary house, but it also limits, and perhaps illogical. Non -Western countries are home to More than 6 billion people – About 85 % One of the world’s population. No wonder they are also shared with the “majority world”.
There is a full collection of stories that are colored such as Indian fabric bazaar, rich like Ethiopian and emotional soup spices like Tango in Buenos Aires. Tales that include love, loss, joy, revolution, and even extending to a mango exploding, extremely funny Frankstein and ghosts with strong political opinions.
There are other ways to get facts. Newspapers are full of them, as well as podcasts and documentaries. Travel offers multiply, and choose you. But until then, there is nothing like the world’s point of view through a novel. The novels can just exceed the appointment of the site. They can describe and landscape, but they can also capture the nation’s spirit and reveal something from its soul, providing a gateway to understanding the world with all its complexity, wealth and absurdity. The search for authors of different cultural backgrounds, races and races means reading books that challenge assumptions and expand horizons as we enter into new worlds and get to know people who live a different life. It is a cure for a cultural umbrella.
Civil war in Nigeria in the 1970s? Half a yellow sun chimamanda ngzi adichie is operational. Seoul is looking? Han Kang, Nobel Prize winner, with works such as human actions and we do not deepen in the Psychology of South Korea. A slice of life from Cuba? Leonardo Padura, Mario Conde, Havana policeman, in the case. There is a lot where these came – tales that narrate with VIM, vitality and narrative by a book such as Ngugi Wa Thiong’o, ISABEL ALLENDE, Arundhati Roy, and Naguib Mahafouz and abdulrazak gurnah.
With independence, there was an essential event for many global southern countries in the twentieth century, beating the anti -colonial struggle at the heart of some novels (sometimes loudly so that you can hear it beating). “So that the lions have their own historians, the history of hunting will always glorify the hunter.” As the literary black in Global South Roar, they not only tell us about their countries but also about their former colonial masters. Salman Rushdie called it “The Empire is written.”
My global tour spread to about 200 books, but it was not supposed to be an exercise in the merit. These books are not heavy and eloquent of humor, as they transform pages, decline in conspiracy, and keep you at night. They provide experiences to change the global view.
Confronting Western Sharia and liberating yourself from Anglophone Autocrate is more than opening the gate from preserving the gate. I have found that a diverse reading makes your literary world larger, richer and more exciting. Reading all over the world helps the myths that emerge in Africa explode that Africa is full of conflict and famine, and that the Middle East is an unparalleled war zone, and that Latin America is a mixture of drugs, military and carnivating coups.
The writer and activist Alif Shafak talked about “the breadth of Storrelland, where there are no limits, nor hierarchical sequences,” no we are in front of them. “
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Perhaps it is not a new idea (excuse the pun) that books can open the world, change lives, and, accordingly, by the way, changing the world. But travel around the world is guided by a pen of 200 of them and will definitely conclude that the strength of the pen (or keyboard) should not be reduced.
Perhaps this marathon reading is not yours, but be adventure. Help yourself more than The tortilla in the Mexican buffet. Expand the books and humanity shelf. It can happen simultaneously.