The international novel

Introduction

E. M. Forster, A passage to India

Ivo Andrić, The bridge on the Drina

Ismail Kadare, Chronicle in stone: the costs of being small

Gabriel García Márquez, The autumn of the patriarch

Sahar Khalifeh, Wild thorns: the worst boundary problem in the world

V. S. Naipaul, A bend in the river

Nuruddin Farah, Maps

Rhea Galanaki, The life of Ismail Ferik Pasha: the trouble with Crete

Salman Rushdie, The satanic verses

Orhan Pamuk, Snow

Roberto Bolaño, 2666: apocalypse in a border town

Khaled Hosseini, A thousand splendid suns: and some conclusions.