Expat fiction
“I thought that if I set myself against a background into which I could not possibly merge that some outline would present itself.”
-Mavis Gallant, “When They Were Nearly Young”
I love fiction about expatriates, not only because I lived in various places abroad for nearly six years of my life, but because I’ve felt like an outsider (in various ways) since I was a little kid. Here are some of my favorite books about expats:
- Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
- The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
- Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald
- A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
- Paris Stories by Mavis Gallant
- The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- Mating by Norman Rush
- A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
- Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
- The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
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