Storygraph is great! I think it's the alternative most people use

And I'm saddened by the thought that there may be those so concerned about other nations looking down on them further that they hide signs of their nation's struggles. Or those so convinced by that "Western perspective" of superiority that they feel nothing they write is ever good enough to share

That comment about the poetry truly strikes me as someone who is just now reading my first ever piece of Turkish literature. I wonder if the speaker of the first quote might have some insight when he speculates about the reason the cultures of currently impoverished people are devalued

And then there's the man who keeps saying things like this to those who speak similarly to the quotes above: "we shouldn't say this to the German press, because it will lay us open to ridicule."

No matter what is proposed, it seems to meet with a similar objection.

"When they write poems or sing songs in the West, they speak for all humanity. They're human beings--but we're just Muslims. When /we/ write something, it's just called ethnic poetry."

...It's all a joke: their culture, their customs, their practices...When a Westerner meets someone from a poor country, he feels deep contempt. He assumes that the poor man's head must be full of all the nonsense that plunged his country into poverty and despair."

"All I'd want them to print in that Frankfurt paper is this: We're not stupid, we're just poor! ... People might feel sorry for a man who's fallen on hard times, but when an entire nation is poor, the rest of the world assumes its people must be brainless, lazy, dirty, clumsy fools...

Loved the AI question; loved all the options for it even more 🥰

Congratulations!

"hopefully a little bit fun." - missing "of"

bookshop.org sells them now!

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Great to hear it! Looks like my library has a copy, so it'll be easy enough to pick up when I get the chance 🙂

Not yet; I just added it to my tbr recently based on a recommendation from someone else. I saw you're reading it also!

Simplicity is a graphic novel about a trans man in the year 2081 who's hired to do an anthropological survey of a place called Simplicity. Soon after he arrives, members of the community begin to disappear.

I'm looking forward to wrapping up the year with this one!

Snow is Turkish contemporary fiction, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature. In it, a middle-aged poet attends his mother's funeral, where he hears about a wave of suicides and decides to investigate as a journalist.

I'm looking forward to what will be my first book from this country!