Reading the World Confessions of a Literary Explorer

Fanatical bibliophile and self-confessed bookworm, Ann Morgan was surprised to realise, to her shame, that she rarely read international or translated fiction. And she was not alone. Setting about to rectify this gaping hole, she decided to read a book from each 'country' in the world. No mean feat in itself, she soon discovered that the first challenge would present itself sooner than she expected, in the very defining of those seemingly straightforward terms: What is a country? And what do we mean by the term 'book'? Appealing to those who enjoy entertaining and intelligent narrative non-fiction from authors such as Bill Bryson and Nick Hornby, Elif Batuman and Anne Fadiman, as well as blog bestsellers such as One Red Paperclip and Julie andamp; Julia, Ann's journey is the perfect bibliophile's read u it's about reading, about narrative, and why we need to tell stories, and about how those stories are written the world over. Ann Morgan's journey is a cultural map of the world through books. Importantly, it's also about how place u the world and the countries dividing or uniting it u shapes the books we read and write.