The 2018 Reading Challenge - #14 - A Book by an author with a different Ethnicity than you

Hi guys :)

How are you all doing? And are you still on schedule with your challenge?
Today's book is for the category - A Book by an author with a different Ethnicity than you.
Its quite hard an easy at the same time to find a book for this category. Of cause first you have to define ethnicity for you. I actually made it quite easy for myself and defined it by country and went a bit further and thought everyone outside Europe? How would you define Ethnicity?
So in the end I decided to go for:

Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. 

The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert

Humbert is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather."Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores.

The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. Later it was translated into Russian by Nabokov himself and published in New York City in 1967 by Phaedra Publishers. Lolita quickly attained a classic status. The novel was adapted into a film by Stanley Kubrick in 1962, and again in 1997 by Adrian Lyne. It has also been adapted several times for the stage and has been the subject of two operas, two ballets, and an acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful Broadway musical.

Its assimilation into popular culture is such that the name "Lolita" has been used to imply that a young girl is sexually precocious. Lolita is included on TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005. It holds a place in the Bokklubben World Library, a 2002 collection of the most celebrated books in history. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's 200 "best-loved novels.¹

Again a little summary from goodreads:

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"Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter. Reluctantly agreeing to marry Mrs Haze just to be close to Lolita, Humbert suffers greatly in the pursuit of romance; but when Lo herself starts looking for attention elsewhere, he will carry her off on a desperate cross-country misadventure, all in the name of Love. Hilarious, flamboyant, heart-breaking and full of ingenious word play, Lolita is an immaculate, unforgettable masterpiece of obsession, delusion and lust"

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I´ll give it a 5 out of 10

Oh my it took me sooo long to get into this book...I really had to nearly force myself to read it.
I can not really say why because now after finishing it I loved the style it is written in.
I just can not give it any more than a five since I kind of had to force myself to read it...really don´t know why...I really wanted to like it!
I´m not finished yet and thats why I find it really hard to say anything about this book yet besides O do not enjoy it very much so far...I´ll try to finish it soon and come back to you asap!
So sorrry thats really not how this whole thing is meant to be isn´t it...I hope I can finish it soon and then I´ll tell you all my thoughts ^^
16/05/18: I´m still not finished...little not from the future...is may and I´m still not done...)

When it comes to adding some alternative options I think its a bit hard to pic some. Its so much depending on you and your ethnicity and your personal definition of Ethnicity!
My alternatives would have been books by Tolstoi or Dostojevsky or maybe The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje or pretty much everything by asian or african authors well like I said in the beginning, everything by Non-European authors ;) and there is a looot to choose from there ;)

Which book did you choose for this category?

With lots of love

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