Sherwood Adult Winter Reading Challenge #3: Books Set in Another CountryLike this list

18 items

• The Bee Sting

  Murray, Paul, 1975-

  Add The Bee Sting to your for later shelf

  Avoiding the fact that his once-lucrative car business is going under, Dickie Barnes struggles to be a good person while his family falls apart, wondering if a single moment of bad luck can change the direction of a life and find a happy…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blaze Me a Sun

  a Novel About a Crime

  Carlsson, Christoffer, 1986-

  Add Blaze Me a Sun to your for later shelf

  A police officer obsessed with a serial killer that became active in 1986, on the same night the prime minister was assassinated, fails to solve the case, until a novelist returns to Halland and begins interviewing him decades later. Set…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Couples Trip

  a Novel

  Kvensler, Ulf, 1968-

  Add The Couples Trip to your for later shelf

  Agreeing to let Milena bring her boyfriend Jacob on their annual hiking trip, Anna and Henrik find their hike going terrifyingly wrong when all three of them come to realize that taking Jacob was a bad decision. Set in Sweden.

• The Daughters of Madurai

  a Novel

  Variyar, Rajasree,

  Add The Daughters of Madurai to your for later shelf

  Traveling from South India to Australia, Janani, a mother who will do anything to save her unborn daughter, meets Nila, a young woman who embarks on a lifechanging journey of self-discovery.

• Eastbound

  Kerangal, Maylis de,

  Add Eastbound to your for later shelf

  Aliocha, a Russian conscript on a packed Trans-Siberian train, runs into an older French woman who agrees to hide him in her sleeping car, making her an accomplice to a deserter.

• Fractured Soul

  a Novel

  Mizubayashi, Akira, 1951-

  Add Fractured Soul to your for later shelf

  Tokyo, 1938. An amateur quartet, led by the compassionate Yu, gathers to practice. Suddenly, their rehearsal is brutally interrupted by military police. In the ensuing skirmish, Yu's violin is smashed while his son, Rei, witnesses his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greek Lessons

  a Novel

  Han, Kang, 1970-

  Add Greek Lessons to your for later shelf

  A young Korean woman losing her ability to speak befriends a Greek language teacher who is losing his sight, and soon they discover they have more in common, in the new novel from the prize-winning author of The Vegetarian.

• A Greek Love

  a Novel of Cuba

  Valdés, Zoé, 1959-

  Add A Greek Love to your for later shelf

  A free spirit who spends time near the port of Havana, teenager Zâe becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone.

• The House of Doors

  a Novel

  Tan, Twan Eng, 1972-

  Add The House of Doors to your for later shelf

  In 1921 Penang, when Willie, a famed writer and old friend of her husband's, arrives for an extended stay, Lesley makes a dangerous decision to confide in him about life in the Straits -- including her relationship with a charismatic…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Love Your Daughter

  Blum, Hila, 1969-

  Add How to Love Your Daughter to your for later shelf

  Weaving back and forth in time, this new novel from the author of the Israeli bestseller The Visit tells the story of a mother's struggle to come to terms with her estrangement from her only child. Set in Israel and The Netherlands.

• The List

  a Novel

  Adegoke, Yomi,

  Add The List to your for later shelf

  Ola Olajide, a celebrated magazine journalist, is set to marry the love of her life in one month's time until she finds his name on “The List,” an anonymous account posting allegations on social media, in this exploration of the impact of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life

  Christiansen, Rune, 1963-

  Add The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life to your for later shelf

  Despite an increasing need for closer human contact that begins to encroach on Lydia's contented solitude, ultimately it is her satisfaction with an inner life that speaks of an elegance often lost in these harried times. Set in Norway.

• A Spell of Good Things

  a Novel

  Adebayo, Ayobami, 1988-

  Add A Spell of Good Things to your for later shelf

  The lives of two Nigerians, Eniola, who spends his days running small errands and begging, and Wuraola, an exhausted young doctor from a wealthy family, are intertwined when sudden violence shatters them both.

• The Postcard

  Berest, Anne, 1979-

  Add The Postcard to your for later shelf

  Fifteen years after the arrival of an anonymous postcard with the names of her great-grandparents and their children — all killed at Auschwitz — Anne is moved to discover who sent it and why and embarks on a journey to learn the fate of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Red Queen

  Gómez-Jurado, Juan,

  Add Red Queen to your for later shelf

  After a personal trauma, Antonia Scott, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary, refuses to continue her work until she is drawn into a macabre, ritualistic murder investigation by a desperate police…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro

  a Novel

  Ardone, Viola, 1974-

  Add The Unbreakable Heart of Oliva Denaro to your for later shelf

  Set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, 15-year-old Oliva Denaro fights for her independence, which captures the attention of both the Pope and the nation's president.

• What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

  a Novel

  Aoyama, Michiko, 1970-

  Add What You Are Looking for Is in the Library to your for later shelf

  This tribute to the magic of libraries follows Tokyo's most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi, as she gives her visitors one unexpected book with life-altering consequences.

• The Wind Knows My Name

  a Novel

  Allende, Isabel,

  Add The Wind Knows My Name to your for later shelf

  Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht, and his mother secures a spot for him on a train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying nothing but a change of…Read moreRead more of this annotation