TARGET: SEC: fiction that takes place in other countries

[Rena Deutsch <renadeutsch@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>]

I am looking to add some new titles to my bibliography "Other Cultures,
Other Mores: Novels and Memoirs of Life in Other Lands" which is for 10th
graders.

I have the bibliography broken up into Africa; The Middle East; Asia;
Central and South America.  I'd like to add some titles to each category, if
possible, and add a Europe category and Australia/New Zealand category, if
there are titles that I can get here in the US.

I am looking for YA or adult titles which have been published recently (last
3 years).
I have the following new books on my list already: Homeless Bird, Shiva's
Fire, Samir and Yonathan (a little young for the students, perhaps?).  I am
more interested in contemporary times than historical fiction.  I am sure I
am missing some good titles.

The authors I have on my list already are:
Africa:
Chinua Achebe
Lesley Beake
Bruce Courtenay
Peter Dickinson
Buchi Emecheta
Nancy Farmer
Sheila Gordon
Beverly Naidoo

Middle East:
Danielle Carmi
Najib Mahfouz
Rafik Shami

Asia
Pearl Buck
Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
Da Chen
Sook Nyul Choi
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Minfong Ho
Ji-Li Jiang
Bette Bao
Nora Okja Keller
Adeline Yen Mah
Anchee Min
Kyoko Mori
Lensey Namioka
Bapsi Sidwa
Suzanne Fisher Staples
Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Gloria Whelan

Caribbean and South America
Julia Alvarez
Sandra Benitez
Omar Castaneda
Edwidge Danticat
Harriet Doerr
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jamaica Kincaid
Frances Temple

Also, if you are interested in the bibliography when it's done (= when the
annotations are finished!!), let me know.

Rena Deutsch, Librarian
High School for the Humanities
New York, NY
renadeutsch@worldnet.att.net

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