Books written in uncommon languages

Description
Books written in languages with relatively few speakers and/or languages rarely translated into English. Please state the original language in the Explanation box.
1
Jamais avant le coucher du soleil
de Johanna Sinisalo
973 membres
31 critiques
½ 3.7
3 Members
aulsmith, Dilara86, starbox
Explications
Dilara86: Finnish
2
Le cheval d'orgueil. Mémoires d'un Breton du pays bigouden
de Pierre-Jakez Helias
166 membres
3 critiques
3.8
2 Members
Dilara86, Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Original language: Breton. Translated into French by the author. The English translation might be based on the French version.
3
Le Pont sur la Drina
de Ivo Andrić
2,373 membres
67 critiques
4.2
2 Members
Dilara86, starbox
Explications
Dilara86: Serbo-Croatian
4
Wizard of the Crow
de Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
926 membres
17 critiques
4.2
2 Members
Dilara86, spiphany
Explications
Dilara86: Kikuyu/Gĩkũyũ
5
Sunflower
de Gyula Krúdy
296 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
inge87
Explications
inge87: Hungarian
6
Le Chevalier à la peau de tigre
de Shota Rustaveli
258 membres
5 critiques
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Georgian
7
The Old Man and His Sons
de Heðin Brú
105 membres
4 critiques
3.8
2 Members
Dilara86, spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Faroese
8
Avril brisé
de Ismaîl Kadaré
694 membres
30 critiques
3.9
2 Members
Dilara86, bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Albanian
9
Les Gens d'Obababa
de Bernardo Atxaga
657 membres
15 critiques
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Basque
10
L'homme qui savait la langue des serpents
de Andrus Kivirähk
374 membres
22 critiques
4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Original language: Estonian. Translated into French. No English translation as far as I know. ETA: Translated into English in 2015 :-)
11
A Not So Perfect Crime
de Teresa Solana
101 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
inge87
Explications
inge87: Catalan
12
The Ten Thousand Things
de Maria Dermoût
524 membres
17 critiques
4.1
Member
inge87
Explications
inge87: Dutch
13
L'Hommes des îles
de Tomás O'Crohan
432 membres
8 critiques
4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Irish
14
Justice Undone
de Thor Vilhjalmsson
46 membres
2 critiques
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Icelandic
15
The Coming
de Andrej Nikolaidis
22 membres
1 critique
½ 3.6
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Montenegrin. A bit of a cheat, really, because like Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, and so on it's basically the language that used to be called 'Yugoslavian'.
16
People from Our Side: A Life Story With Photographs and Oral Biography
de Peter Pitseolak
17 membres
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Another slight cheat: The book is written in English, but it's a transcription of Pitseolak's spoken Inuktitut.
17
La corne du bélier
de Isaac Bashevis Singer
612 membres
7 critiques
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Yiddish
18
Rebel in the Soul: A Sacred Text of Ancient Egypt
de Bika Reed
47 membres
1 critique
3.9
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Egyptian (hieratic)
19
L'Evangile de Judas
de Judas Gospel Author
1,010 membres
19 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Coptic
20
L'Épopée de Gilgamesh
de Gilgamesh Poet
9,869 membres
119 critiques
3.8
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Akkadian
21
The Life of Milarepa
de Gtsan-smyon He-ru-ka
509 membres
4 critiques
4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Tibetan
22
Mahala
de Chris Barnard
14 membres
1 critique
3.8
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Afrikaans
23
Vain Art of the Fugue
de Dumitru Tsepeneag
85 membres
1 critique
3.2
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Romanian
24
The dance of Shiva and other tales from India
de Oroon Ghosh
37 membres
1 critique
4
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Sanskrit
25
Les Paradis aveugles
de Thu Hương Dương
524 membres
16 critiques
3.8
Member
Dilara86
26
Death and the Dervish
de Meša Selimović
499 membres
12 critiques
4.2
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Serbian
27
Hidden Camera
de Zoran Zivkovic
149 membres
9 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Serbian
28
Pays frontière
de Tõnu Õnnepalu
87 membres
4 critiques
3.2
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Estonian
29
Things in the Night
de Mati Unt
82 membres
½ 3.3
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Estonian
30
Finding the Center: Narrative Poetry of the Zuni Indians
de Dennis Tedlock
62 membres
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Maybe a bit of a cheat, as no published version of this in the original exists. Translation of live performances in Zuni.
31
Põrgupõhja uus Vanapagan
de Anton Hansen Tammsaare
61 membres
4
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Estonian
32
You Do Understand (Slovenian Literature Series)
de Andrej Blatnik
30 membres
1 critique
4
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Slovenian
33
Edward Hopper: Poems A Bilingual Edition
de Ernest Farrés
25 membres
½ 2.7
Member
bluepiano
Explications
bluepiano: Catalan
34
The Last Journey of Ago Ymeri
de Bashkim Shehu
7 membres
1 critique
3.2
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Albanian
35
The Strange Bride
de Grace Ogot
7 membres
Member
spiphany
Explications
36
City of Ash
de Eugenijus Ališanka
3 membres
1 critique
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Lithuanian
37
Survivor
de Gopinath Mohanty
3 membres
Member
spiphany
Explications
spiphany: Oriya
38
Les fils de la médina
de Naguib Mahfouz
949 membres
21 critiques
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Arabic
39
La Kallocaïne
de Karin Boye
810 membres
23 critiques
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Swedish
40
Nuit
de Tchulpan
2 membres
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Uzbek (translated into French - I don't know whether an English translation exists)
41
Song of Lawino
de Okot P'Bitek
39 membres
3 critiques
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Translated from Acoli into English by the author.
42
Crow Blue
de Adriana Lisboa
43 membres
4 critiques
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Portuguese
43
Le Palais des rêves
de Ismaîl Kadaré
617 membres
18 critiques
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Albanian
44
Rue Katalin
de Magda Szabó
338 membres
15 critiques
4.2
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Hungarian
45
The Other City
de Michal Ajvaz
192 membres
8 critiques
4.1
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Czech
46
Tamas
de Bhisham Sahni
120 membres
3 critiques
3.9
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Hindi
47
Cold days
de Tibor Cseres
2 membres
4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Hungarian
48
The Book of Blam
de Aleksandar Tišma
150 membres
4 critiques
4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Serbo-Croatian
49
Le défaut
de Magdalena Tulli
69 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Polish
50
Basti
de Intizar Husain
157 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Urdu
51
Gens indépendants
de Halldór Laxness
2,910 membres
102 critiques
4.2
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Icelandic
52
La place du coeur
de Steinunn Sigurdardottir
42 membres
1 critique
4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Icelandic
53
L'altra
de Marta Rojals
94 membres
7 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Catalan
54
Our Story: A Memoir of Love and Life in China
de Rao Pingru
67 membres
2 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
56
Ghachar Ghochar
de Vivek Shanbhag
458 membres
22 critiques
3.8
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Kannada
57
Les petits de la guenon
de Boubacar Boris Diop
35 membres
2 critiques
4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Originally written in Wolof, translated into French.
58
Last Night in Nuuk
de Niviaq Korneliussen
181 membres
14 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Original in Greenlandic, Danish version written by the author.
59
Rosa candida
de Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
465 membres
33 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Icelandic
60
C'est moi qui éteins les lumières
de Zoya Pirzad
63 membres
3 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Persian
61
Mireille
de Frédéric Mistral
127 membres
5 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Provençal
62
This Earth of Mankind
de Pramoedya Ananta Toer
762 membres
15 critiques
4.1
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Indonesian
63
La porte
de Magda Szabó
1,804 membres
87 critiques
4.1
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Hungarian
64
Poems New and Collected
de Wisława Szymborska
850 membres
6 critiques
½ 4.4
Member
Dilara86
65
Baba Yaga a pondu un oeuf
de Dubravka Ugrešić
422 membres
22 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Croatian
66
Traitor
de Shobasakthi
1 utilisateur
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Tamil
67
Purple Sea
de Ambai
9 membres
½ 4.3
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Tamil
68
Le rêve d'un Groenlandais
de Mathias Storch
13 membres
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86
Explications
Dilara86: Kalaallisut (Greenlandic)
69
One Part Woman
de Perumal Murugan
202 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
70
Il giardino di cristallo
de Mohsen Makhmalbaf
6 membres
4
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Original language: Persian. Translated into French and Italian. No English translation, as far as I know.
71
Songs of Kabîr
de Kabir
322 membres
4 critiques
3.9
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Hindi/Hindustani
Cynfelyn : With 260m native speakers and 120m L2 speakers, Hindi is hardly an uncommon language!
72
Solaris
de Stanisław Lem
6,565 membres
157 critiques
3.9
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Polish
Cynfelyn : Polish has 55 million native speakers. Hardly an uncommon language.
73
Brothers
de Yu Hua
451 membres
27 critiques
3.9
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Chinese
Cynfelyn : Chinese has 1,200,000,000 native speakers. You have to add the number of native English speakers to the number of second language English speakers, PLUS those who speak English as a foreign language before you that sort of figure. By no stretch of the imagination can Chinese be called an uncommon language.
74
Epouses et concubines
de Su Tong
403 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Chinese
Cynfelyn : Chinese, uncommon? No. Mandarin alone has more native speakers than the next two commonest languages, Spanish and English, combined.
75
Le chagrin de la guerre
de Bao Ninh
1,043 membres
14 critiques
3.9
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Vietnamese
76
Lajja
de Taslima Nasrin
407 membres
6 critiques
2.9
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Bengali
77
The Golden Age
de Michal Ajvaz
193 membres
12 critiques
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Czech
78
Un roman naturel. Roman
de Georgi Gospodinov
148 membres
4 critiques
½ 3.4
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Bulgarian
79
Zenobia
de Gellu Naum
69 membres
4.9
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Romanian
80
Anandamath
de Bankimcandra Chatterji
68 membres
1 critique
½ 3.6
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Bengali
81
Perverzion
de Yuri Andrukhovych
51 membres
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Ukrainian
82
Seven Sixes are Forty Three
de Kiran Nagarkar
46 membres
½ 3.7
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Marathi
83
Three Generations
de Sang-seop Yeom
42 membres
2 critiques
3.2
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Korean
84
The Book of Masks
de Sun-Won Hwang
28 membres
1 critique
½ 3.5
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Korean
85
Madol Doova
de Martin Wickramasinghe
12 membres
1 critique
3
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Sinhala
86
Foi et morphine
de Dimitur Dimov
8 membres
4
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Bulgarian
87
Verfall
de Vladimir Zarev
5 membres
Member
spiphany,Cynfelyn
Explications
spiphany: Bulgarian. Available in German translation
88
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story
de Hanan Al-Shaykh
156 membres
9 critiques
½ 3.3
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Arabic
Cynfelyn : Arabic has 292m native speakers. That's not uncommon.
89
Saison de la migration vers le Nord
de Tayeb Salih
1,663 membres
47 critiques
3.8
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Arabic
90
Popol Vuh : Le livre de la communauté
de Quiché Maya
1,912 membres
28 critiques
3.8
91
La Place du Diamant
de Mercè Rodoreda
1,099 membres
42 critiques
4
92
The Polymath
de Bensalem Himmich
39 membres
1 critique
½ 3.5
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Arabic
93
The Saviour of Lasnamäe
de Mari Saat
15 membres
½ 3.4
94
Impasse des deux palais
de Naguib Mahfouz
2,786 membres
60 critiques
4
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Arabic
95
Palace of Desire
de Naguib Mahfouz
1,401 membres
16 critiques
4
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Arabic
96
Passage des miracles
de Naguib Mahfouz
1,446 membres
39 critiques
3.8
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Arabic
97
Le jardin du passé
de Naguib Mahfouz
1,175 membres
10 critiques
4
Member
Dilara86,Cynfelyn
Explications
Dilara86: Arabic