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Title: The World Between Two Covers

Subtitle: Reading the Globe

Author: Ann Morgan

Narrator: Ann Morgan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-08-15

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's Summary:

A beguiling exploration of the joys of reading across boundaries, inspired by the author's yearlong journey through a book from every country. Ann Morgan writes in the opening of this delightful book, "I glanced up at my bookshelves, the proud record of more than 20 years of reading, and found a host of English and North American greats starting down at me.... I had barely touched a work by a foreign language author in years.... The awful truth dawned. I was a literary xenophobe." Prompted to read a book translated into English from each of the world's 195 UN-recognized countries (plus Taiwan and one extra), Ann sought out classics, folktales, current favorites, and commercial triumphs, novels, short stories, memoirs, and countless mixtures of all these things. The world between two covers, the world to which Ann introduces us with affection and no small measure of wit, is a world rich in the kind of narratives that engage us passionately: We meet an irreverent junk food-obsessed heroine in Kuwait, an explorer from Togo who spent years among the Inuit in Greenland, and a former child circus performer of Roma background seeking sanctuary in Switzerland. Ann's quest explores issues that affect us all: personal, political, national, and global. What is cultural heritage? How do we define national identity? Is it possible to overcome censorship and propaganda? And, above all, why and how should we read from other cultures, languages, and traditions? Illuminating and inspiring, The World Between Two Covers welcomes us into the global community of stories.

Members Reviews:

A terrific read that could change the world

This book was terrific. I am going to take this goal as my own and try to inspire others to follow it as well.

The lack of books in translation also explains why so few Americans

have a global view of the world and merely a national view. I believe if there were

more Americans reading more translations, Americans would think twice before constantly engaging in war.

Those would be more 'real people' to us that we're bombing.

I also believe this lack of knowlege about the world will make America

uncompetitive in the future, hence, we need to get reading global literature!

I applaud Ann's efforts, I like that she examined the state of the global publishing industry in the book,

and sends us to her blog for the list itself.

wonderful book for all bookworms

Ann Morgan decides to read a book from all over the world,each country a different book.Wonderful book for all bookworms.Ann introduces us to new books &interesting contacts with authors.the book is written in a chatty style as though you were listening to one of your close friends.

5/5 for concept. 2/5 for execution.

The idea of reading books from around the world is absolutely terrific, and is what prompted me to pre-order this book. I can't recommend the prose style as highly. The style is extremely, chronically long-winded. Sentences which run on for more than a page are common place. It was extremely tedious and, in the end, I just could not go on.The name-dropping, extended academic quotes and jargon are at home in a term-paper, perhaps.