Friday, June 20, 2014

Literary World Cup - Part II


"In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team." Eduardo Hughes Galeano

Halifax Public Libraries' collection is so diverse that we have books to represent each soccer team in the ‪2014 FIFA ‎World Cup in Brazil! So we decided to have our own ‎Literary World Cup matchups with titles from our Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Multilingual collections.

Colombia  vs Greece:


Amor en los tiempos del colera by Gabriel García Márquez


One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel García Márquez


The Odyssey by Homer



http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:amor%20en%20los%20tiempos%20del http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:one%20hundred%20years%20of%20solitude http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:odyssey%20author:homer


Uruguay vs Costa Rica:

La montaña invisible by Carolina De Robertis


The invisible mountain by Carolina De Robertis

Cocori by Joaquin Gutierrez


http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:la%20montana%20invisible http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:invisible%20mountain http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:cocori


England vs Italy :


The complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri


http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:complete%20sherlock%20holmes http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:divine%20comedy


Côte d’Ivoire vs Japan:


Aya : love in Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:aya%20love%20in%20yop%20city http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:1q84 http://discover.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/?q=title:1q84


Which one is your favorite team or favorite book?

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