donabel_beltran: i think i've actually met you at the geoexpat happy hour. check your pm
"By the river piedra I sat down and wept" is good too i reckon
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Originally Posted by donabel_beltran
I'm a really big Paulo Coelho fan, and I agree about the "The Alchemist" 100%! :-) I think I re-read it every 6 months! Look for his "Eleven Minutes" and "The Devil and Miss Prym". Nothing beats "The Alchemist", but I think "The Devil..." is quite close. :-)
I'm not really from South America, but I guess I was in one of my lifetimes. (Haha!) I really like books from South American authors. If you have the time, read "100 Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I have read it about 3 years ago, but the images which the pages evoked in me still linger as if I had just put the book down a minute ago. (But hey, I discovered it before Oprah did! Haha!) "Love in the Time of Cholera" is also good, but I prefer the story-telling of "100 years.."
From the Philippines (where I am from), you may want to read books by Nick Joaquin. His more popular one is "The Woman with Two Navels". I don't think there's much contemporary Philippine novels out in the market right now (fellow Pinoys, correct me if I'm wrong). Most of the ones I see are collections of short stories, or of articles the writers have published in newspapers. If you are inclined to read such, look for the series of Twisted books by Jessica Zafra (especially the earlier ones; she's now on her 8th, I think).
I think this is going to be an interesting thread. I hope a lot of people take the time to contribute here.
:-Dona
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