/lit/ - Literature

Hello /lit/, I'm compiling a list, and I would like your help. Could you please name some books which meet all of the following criteria?
>author is a racial minority in his country of residence
>book isn't about racism, slavery, colonialism, or any other ethnic-based grievance
>book has literary merit

post prose excerpts that will make me want to read your book. whenever someone recs something on here it's literally just a pic of the books cover art and "read x". Why the fuck nobody ever posts actual excerpts on a literature board boggles my mind. I'll start I guess.

>"The surviving heathens were strung from trees, and in the evening light they hanged, like drowned men floating up from the deeps. And though years passed, none dared touch them.
>They sagged from the nails that fixed them, collapsed into heaps at the trunks. And to anyone who listened, the bones would whisper a revelation... the secret of battle. Indomitable conviction. Unconquerable belief."

- the king of /sffg/ himself

>>20419983
That post was made after I made my posts

>>20321017
Jacques Brel

I don't read and still post here. And you cannot stop me.

just be funny and cute

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to every single policeman in America, and an especially Merry Christmas to those that have physically assaulted POC

This is the best poem of all time and it's not even close

Я пoмню чyднoe мгнoвeньe:
Пepeдo мнoй явилacь ты,
Кaк мимoлeтнoe видeньe,
Кaк гeний чиcтoй кpacoты.

B тoмлeньях гpycти бeзнaдeжнoй
B тpeвoгaх шyмнoй cyeты,
Звyчaл мнe дoлгo гoлoc нeжный,
И cнилиcь милыe чepты.

Шли гoды. Бypь пopыв мятeжнoй
Pacceял пpeжниe мeчты,
И я зaбыл твoй гoлoc нeжный,
Tвoи нeбecныe чepты.

B глyши, вo мpaкe зaтoчeнья
Tянyлиcь тихo дни мoи
Бeз бoжecтвa, бeз вдoхнoвeнья,
Бeз cлeз, бeз жизни, бeз любви.

Дyшe нacтaлo пpoбyждeньe:
И вoт oпять явилacь ты,
Кaк мимoлeтнoe видeньe,
Кaк гeний чиcтoй кpacoты.

И cepдцe бьeтcя в yпoeньe,
И для нeгo вocкpecли внoвь
И бoжecтвo, и вдoхнoвeньe,
И жизнь, и cлeзы, и любoвь.

>WHENEVER LIFE GETS YOU DOWN
>KEEPS YOU WEARING A FROWN
>AND THE GRAVY TRAIN HAS LEFT YOU BEHIND

tranny janny
wants to ban.
tranny janny
is a man.
tranny janny
can't help but be
uncanny, can 'e?

>>18428907
Sleep 8 hours
Eat healthy
Exercise
Seek medical help
Be self sustainable
Do something that makes you happy

Its literally that easy

>>18428674
goodnight anon, love u

>>18388822
Buddhism is refined, distilled nihilism.
Anything said in defense of Buddhism is cope.

>just finished reading schelling (... for now)
we hegelians now
should i read hegel's differenz (i've already read fichte and schelling) or should i get straight into the phenomenology?

>>17866192
it's a kind of strength that marxist or left leaners don't have to even understand their opponents in order to defeat them

you have yet to understand that you're a buffoon

>>17489808
he cute

>>17456784

I don't buy at Christmas

the quran is the only book that anyone should read and if you disagree with me you are wrong

>>16937327
>>16937415
i'm going to make another ebook thread

I won't read a book unless it says the nigger word

>>16930796
A little life by Hanya Yanagihara
Except that the protagonist copes by being asexual rather than having fetishes

>>16902346
A gentleman and a scholar? On lit? What a strange day!

>start reading slowly and sub-vocalizing again
>start reading books that are easier than 95% of what /lit/ recommends
>reading suddenly becomes genuinely enjoyable again