Broken April, Ismail Kadare
It starts with a question.
If you had only 30 days left to live, what would you spend them on?
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Afghanistan
A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear, Atiq Rahini
A few days ago I got the first book in the Around the World Project: A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by Atiq Rahini. I found it in a pile of post we pushed our way though when returning from Greece. It was like a flash from a movie, where the main character has gone missing for months. But we have a home now, and I guess that comes with post. From the pile, mine were the four first books from the list. Books from Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria and Andorra.
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The game is easy.
One Country.
One Book.
One Post.
For however long it takes, until I’ve reached all the countries in the world
I am not going to pretend I invented the game. But I don’t see why that should stop me from enjoying it. So this is my literary journey around the world, inspired by Ann Morgan and her Year of Reading the World.
PS. I haven’t put a stop to actually going around the world. Just being slowed down a bit by the times…
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