So if you're wondering if this post is just a desperate attempt to indulge in some world cup mania here, on the fiction writing site, where the World Cup does not belong, then you would be absolutely, 100% correct. But is that so bad? After all, the World Cup only happens every four years, and we'll need reading material in the interim. Why not use the World Cup to promote world literature -- and to help correct the fact that my home country is just about as good at as it is at football? In other words, what books should we read to celebrate our World Cup finalists?
Army Enlisted Job (MOS) Descriptions
The Army calls their enlisted jobs MOSs, or "Military Occupation Specialties." The Army has around 190 MOSs available for enlisted Soldiers. Similar specialties are divided into "branches" or "fields." Below are the Army enlisted job fields. Click on each field so see a list of MOS's that fall under that branch, as well as links to complete information about that MOS (job).
Field 09 -- Native Language Speaker, includes only one MOS (09L), Interpreter/Translator. These Soldiers are those the Army recruited for their native language ability, and perform translation and interpreter duties.
The Army calls their enlisted jobs MOSs, or "Military Occupation Specialties." The Army has around 190 MOSs available for enlisted Soldiers. Similar specialties are divided into "branches" or "fields." Below are the Army enlisted job fields. Click on each field so see a list of MOS's that fall under that branch, as well as links to complete information about that MOS (job).
Field 09 -- Native Language Speaker, includes only one MOS (09L), Interpreter/Translator. These Soldiers are those the Army recruited for their native language ability, and perform translation and interpreter duties.
My own recommendations are embarrassingly paltry, especially when it comes to contemporary lit., but if I'm going to ask for reading suggestions, then I have to offer them, right? When Germany was still in the running, I would have wholeheartedly recommended Herta Müller's The Land of Green Plums. For Spain, Javier Marías, or in a more classical mode, Cervantes. From the Netherlands, Janwillem van de Wetering's Zen-influenced mysteries, or perhaps netherland Joseph O'Neill, who did grow up in the Netherlands, though his name betrays his Irish roots. Sadly, I have no books to recommend for Ghana, who in my opinion were robbed on Friday. Tell me, whom should I read for Ghana? Or for the host country, South Africa? In general, whose books would you recommend as the World Cup wraps up this week?
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