Books written in uncommon languages

Descrição
Books written in languages with relatively few speakers and/or languages rarely translated into English. Please state the original language in the Explanation box.
1
Troll: A Love Story
de Johanna Sinisalo
973 membros
31 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
aulsmith, Dilara86, starbox
Explicações
Dilara86: Finnish
2
The horse of pride : life in a Breton village
de Pierre-Jakez Helias
166 membros
3 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
Dilara86, Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Original language: Breton. Translated into French by the author. The English translation might be based on the French version.
3
The Bridge on the Drina
de Ivo Andrić
2,370 membros
67 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
Dilara86, starbox
Explicações
Dilara86: Serbo-Croatian
4
Wizard of the Crow
de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
927 membros
17 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
Dilara86, spiphany
Explicações
Dilara86: Kikuyu/Gĩkũyũ
5
Sunflower
de Gyula Krúdy
296 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
inge87
Explicações
inge87: Hungarian
6
The Knight in the Panther's Skin
de Shota Rustaveli
257 membros
5 resenhas
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Georgian
7
The Old Man and His Sons
de Heðin Brú
105 membros
4 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
Dilara86, spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Faroese
8
Broken April
de Ismaîl Kadaré
692 membros
30 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
Dilara86, bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Albanian
9
Obabakoak
de Bernardo Atxaga
657 membros
15 resenhas
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Basque
10
The Man Who Spoke Snakish
de Andrus Kivirähk
374 membros
22 resenhas
4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Original language: Estonian. Translated into French. No English translation as far as I know. ETA: Translated into English in 2015 :-)
11
A Not So Perfect Crime
de Teresa Solana
101 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
inge87
Explicações
inge87: Catalan
12
The Ten Thousand Things
de Maria Dermoût
524 membros
17 resenhas
4.1
Member
inge87
Explicações
inge87: Dutch
13
The Islandman
de Tomás O'Crohan
432 membros
8 resenhas
4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Irish
14
Justice Undone
de Thor Vilhjalmsson
46 membros
2 resenhas
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Icelandic
15
The Coming
de Andrej Nikolaidis
22 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Montenegrin. A bit of a cheat, really, because like Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and so on it's basically the language that used to be called 'Yugoslavian'.
16
People from Our Side: A Life Story With Photographs and Oral Biography
de Peter Pitseolak
17 membros
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Another slight cheat: The book is written in English, but it's a transcription of Pitseolak's spoken Inuktitut.
17
Satan in Goray
de Isaac Bashevis Singer
612 membros
7 resenhas
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Yiddish
18
Rebel in the Soul: A Sacred Text of Ancient Egypt
de Bika Reed
47 membros
1 resenha
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Egyptian (hieratic)
19
The Gospel of Judas
de Judas Gospel Author
1,010 membros
19 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Coptic
20
The Epic of Gilgamesh
de Gilgamesh Poet
9,862 membros
119 resenhas
3.8
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Akkadian
21
The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan (Compass)
de Gtsan-smyon He-ru-ka
509 membros
4 resenhas
4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Tibetan
22
Mahala
de Chris Barnard
14 membros
1 resenha
3.8
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Afrikaans
23
Vain Art of the Fugue
de Dumitru Tsepeneag
85 membros
1 resenha
3.2
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Romanian
24
The dance of Shiva and other tales from India
de Oroon Ghosh
37 membros
1 resenha
4
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Sanskrit
25
Paradise of the Blind
de Thu Hương Dương
524 membros
16 resenhas
3.8
Member
Dilara86
26
Death and the Dervish
de Meša Selimović
499 membros
12 resenhas
4.2
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Serbian
27
Hidden Camera
de Zoran Zivkovic
148 membros
9 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Serbian
28
Border State
de Tõnu Õnnepalu
87 membros
4 resenhas
3.2
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Estonian
29
Things in the Night
de Mati Unt
82 membros
½ 3.3
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Estonian
30
Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians
de Dennis Tedlock
62 membros
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Maybe a bit of a cheat, as no published version of this in the original exists. Translation of live performances in Zuni.
31
Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan
de Anton Hansen Tammsaare
61 membros
4
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Estonian
32
You Do Understand (Slovenian Literature Series)
de Andrej Blatnik
30 membros
1 resenha
4
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Slovenian
33
Edward Hopper: Poems A Bilingual Edition
de Ernest Farrés
25 membros
½ 2.7
Member
bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Catalan
34
The Last Journey of Ago Ymeri
de Bashkim Shehu
7 membros
1 resenha
3.2
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Albanian
35
The Strange Bride
de Grace Ogot
7 membros
Member
spiphany
Explicações
36
City of Ash
de Eugenijus Ališanka
3 membros
1 resenha
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Lithuanian
37
Survivor
de Gopinath Mohanty
3 membros
Member
spiphany
Explicações
spiphany: Oriya
38
Fountain and Tomb
de Naguib Mahfouz
949 membros
21 resenhas
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Arabic
39
Kallocain
de Karin Boye
808 membros
23 resenhas
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Swedish
40
Nuit
de Tchulpan
2 membros
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Uzbek (translated into French - I don't know whether an English translation exists)
41
Song of Lawino
de Okot P'Bitek
39 membros
3 resenhas
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Translated from Acoli into English by the author.
42
Crow Blue
de Adriana Lisboa
43 membros
4 resenhas
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Portuguese
43
The Palace of Dreams
de Ismaîl Kadaré
616 membros
18 resenhas
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Albanian
44
Katalin Street
de Magda Szabó
338 membros
15 resenhas
4.2
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Hungarian
45
The Other City
de Michal Ajvaz
192 membros
8 resenhas
4.1
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Czech
46
Tamas
de Bhisham Sahni
119 membros
3 resenhas
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Hindi
47
Cold days
de Tibor Cseres
2 membros
4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Hungarian
48
The Book of Blam
de Aleksandar Tišma
150 membros
4 resenhas
4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Serbo-Croatian
49
Flaw
de Magdalena Tulli
69 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Polish
50
Basti
de Intizar Husain
157 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Urdu
51
Independent People
de Halldór Laxness
2,907 membros
102 resenhas
4.2
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Icelandic
52
Place of the Heart
de Steinunn Sigurdardottir
42 membros
1 resenha
4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Icelandic
53
L'altra
de Marta Rojals
94 membros
7 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Catalan
54
Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China
de Rao Pingru
67 membros
2 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
56
Ghachar Ghochar
de Vivek Shanbhag
457 membros
22 resenhas
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Kannada
57
Doomi Golo―The Hidden Notebooks (African Humanities and the Arts)
de Boubacar Boris Diop
34 membros
2 resenhas
4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Originally written in Wolof, translated into French.
58
Last Night in Nuuk
de Niviaq Korneliussen
181 membros
14 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Original in Greenlandic, Danish version written by the author.
59
The Greenhouse
de Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
465 membros
33 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Icelandic
60
Things We Left Unsaid
de Zoya Pirzad
63 membros
3 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Persian
61
Mirèio
de Frédéric Mistral
127 membros
5 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Provençal
62
This Earth of Mankind
de Pramoedya Ananta Toer
761 membros
15 resenhas
4.1
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Indonesian
63
The Door
de Magda Szabó
1,800 membros
87 resenhas
4.1
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Hungarian
64
Poems New and Collected
de Wisława Szymborska
850 membros
6 resenhas
½ 4.4
Member
Dilara86
65
Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
de Dubravka Ugrešić
422 membros
22 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Croatian
66
Traitor
de Shobasakthi
1 membro
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Tamil
67
Purple Sea
de Ambai
9 membros
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Tamil
68
Le rêve d'un Groenlandais
de Mathias Storch
13 membros
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
Explicações
Dilara86: Kalaallisut (Greenlandic)
69
One Part Woman
de Perumal Murugan
201 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
70
Il giardino di cristallo
de Mohsen Makhmalbaf
6 membros
4
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Original language: Persian. Translated into French and Italian. No English translation, as far as I know.
71
Songs of Kabîr
de Kabir
322 membros
4 resenhas
3.9
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Hindi/Hindustani
Cynfelyn : With 260m native speakers and 120m L2 speakers, Hindi is hardly an uncommon language!
72
Solaris
de Stanisław Lem
6,556 membros
157 resenhas
3.9
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Polish
Cynfelyn : Polish has 55 million native speakers. Hardly an uncommon language.
73
Brothers
de Yu Hua
450 membros
27 resenhas
3.9
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Chinese
Cynfelyn : Chinese has 1,200,000,000 native speakers. You have to add the number of native English speakers to the number of second language English speakers, PLUS those who speak English as a foreign language before you that sort of figure. By no stretch of the imagination can Chinese be called an uncommon language.
74
Raise the Red Lantern
de Su Tong
401 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Chinese
Cynfelyn : Chinese, uncommon? No. Mandarin alone has more native speakers than the next two commonest languages, Spanish and English, combined.
75
The sorrow of war
de Bao Ninh
1,043 membros
14 resenhas
3.9
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Vietnamese
76
Shame
de Taslima Nasrin
406 membros
6 resenhas
2.9
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Bengali
77
The Golden Age
de Michal Ajvaz
193 membros
12 resenhas
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Czech
78
Natural Novel
de Georgi Gospodinov
148 membros
4 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Bulgarian
79
Zenobia
de Gellu Naum
69 membros
4.9
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Romanian
80
Anandamath
de Bankimcandra Chatterji
68 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Bengali
81
Perverzion
de Yuri Andrukhovych
51 membros
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Ukrainian
82
Seven Sixes are Forty Three
de Kiran Nagarkar
46 membros
½ 3.7
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Marathi
83
Three Generations
de Sang-seop Yeom
42 membros
2 resenhas
3.2
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Korean
84
The Book of Masks
de Sun-Won Hwang
28 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Korean
85
Madol Doova
de Martin Wickramasinghe
12 membros
1 resenha
3
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Sinhala
86
Damned souls
de Dimitur Dimov
8 membros
4
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Bulgarian
87
Verfall
de Vladimir Zarev
5 membros
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explicações
spiphany: Bulgarian. Available in German translation
88
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story
de Hanan Al-Shaykh
156 membros
9 resenhas
½ 3.3
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Arabic
Cynfelyn : Arabic has 292m native speakers. That's not uncommon.
89
Season of Migration to the North
de Tayeb Salih
1,661 membros
47 resenhas
3.8
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Arabic
90
Popol Vuh
de Quiché Maya
1,911 membros
28 resenhas
3.8
91
A praça do Diamante
de Mercè Rodoreda
1,094 membros
42 resenhas
4
92
The Polymath
de Bensalem Himmich
39 membros
1 resenha
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Arabic
93
The Saviour of Lasnamäe
de Mari Saat
15 membros
½ 3.4
94
Palace Walk
de Naguib Mahfouz
2,783 membros
59 resenhas
4
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Arabic
95
Palace of Desire
de Naguib Mahfouz
1,400 membros
16 resenhas
4
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Arabic
96
Midaq Alley
de Naguib Mahfouz
1,442 membros
39 resenhas
3.8
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Arabic
97
Sugar Street
de Naguib Mahfouz
1,175 membros
10 resenhas
4
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explicações
Dilara86: Arabic