multicultural books

Most of the public universities in this part of the US (Great Lakes states) require their freshmen to take a 3 semester hour class in multiculturalism. My son, currently enrolled at Ball State University in Indiana, is no exception to that. Since I paid for his books (primarily, though not all- novels - for this particular class), I told him he had to bring them home at the end of the term so that I could read them.

These are the books his professor picked for the class he took (Honors 189 - Honors Symposium in Global Studies). Well, with the exception of one book, that he accidentally left behind in his dorm room, but he said was really weird and almost impossible to understand anyway - this is the list.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (Afghanistan)
The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al Aswany (Egypt)
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong (banned in its own country, Vietnam)
The Royal Ghosts by Samrat Upadhyay (Nepal)
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
Poems, Protest, and a Dream by Soy Juana Ines de la Cruz (written by a woman protesting for her right to intellectual pursuits in Mexico in the year 1691)
First They Killed my Father by Loung Ung (the memior of a woman who lost most of her family in Cambodia's Killing Fields when she was a child - this was required reading for every incoming Ball State University student this year)
The Analects by Confucius

He says I will most likely really like/love The Kite Runner.