The Annual International Book Fair of Tehran

[A. S. Behsam]

Hi guys!

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread, so I apologize if it isn't.

The Annual International Book Fair of Tehran opens tomorrow, so I need some titles to look up. To be honest this is about the only opportunity for me to buy original books, so, I wanna take the best of it...

Any books you want to suggest?
Novels (of any genre) and writing guide books. And please tell me why you're suggesting them and what they're about.

Thank you so much.

 

[The Judge]

Book search is really designed for people who recall reading a book but can't now think of its name or author. What you're wanting is more recommendations for books, so I'll move this over to General Book Discussion.

You haven't left a lot of time for recommendations to come in, so while you're waiting have a scan of a few other threads in GBD, many of which are asking for ideas of what to read next.

In any event, have a good day -- I hope you find plenty of good books at the fair!

 

[alchemist]

Sorry I didn't see this beforehand. What did you get?

 

[GOLLUM]

I checked and this fair goes 'til 14 may, so no idea if behsam is there until then?

Anyway, I don't really have time to provide details but as this is the largest book fair in Asia, the following are books of world literature (fiction) that are all worth getting...

Berlin AlexanderPlatz - Alfred Doblin
Closely Observed Trains - Bohumil Hrabal
I Served the King of England - Bohumil Hrabal
Brothers Kazamarov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Faust - Goethe
Memed My Hawk - Yeshar Kemal
Sound of the Mountain - Yukanari Kawabata
Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz
Bridge on the Drina - Ivo Andric
Magic Mountain - Thomas Mann
The Woman In The Dunes - Kobe Abe
Love and Garbage - Ivan Klima
The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
If on a Winters Night A Traveller - Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Hopscotch - Julio Cortazar
Palefire - Vladimir Nabokov
Radetzky March - Joseph Roth
Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
A Man Of No Qualities - Robert Musil
Labyrinths - Jorge Luis Borges
Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald
Wittgenstein's Nephew - Thomas Bernhard
Jacob Von Gunten - Robert Walser
Street of Crocodiles - Bruno Schulz
Strange Tales From A Chinese Studio - Liaozhai Zhiyi
The Good Soldier Svjek - Jaroslav Hašek
One Hundred Years Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruis Zafon

That's just scratching the surface but will give you a good starting point.

Cheers.