Most important book in your country

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Not really a historic text but
>The Lusiads
>Written in Homeric fashion, the poem focuses mainly on a fantastical interpretation of the Portuguese voyages of discovery during the 15th and 16th centuries. Os Lusíadas is often regarded as Portugal's national epic, much as Virgil's Aeneid was for the Ancient Romans, or Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for the Ancient Greeks. It was written when Camões was an exile in Macau and was first printed in 1572, three years after the author returned from the Indies.

It's fucking beautiful to be honest

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>>3346565

Written by a fellow Missourian no less.

>>3346664
Context please?

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>>3346653
>mfw i am from kerala.

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>>3346565
The Gaucho Martin Fierro (1872)

Tells the story (in rhyming six-line stanzas) of Martín Fierro, a gaucho (Argentine cowboy), who is forcibly recruited into the military, eventually defects, and ends up becoming an outlaw after killing another man.

It is an ode to the simpler country life of the gaucho that was dissappearing, as European immigrants settled in the new land and the wilderness of the Southern frontier against the Indians was subdued by "civilization" and modern society. The free range cattle roaming in the grasslands of the Pampas, that made gaucho life possible, had turned into fenced farm plots property of the new settlers, and the rough cowboys of the Pampas became a species in extinction.

It's 1872 nostalgia for a lifestyle that was dissappearing.
Everything in this country is built on nostalgia, from the literature to the tango.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mart%C3%ADn_Fierro

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>>3346819
stay mad indian boi. We had some good times good times in kerala

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>>3346757

>he's never heard of the Great American Novel

>>3346909
I am from Cochin you cunt, why would I be mad Portugese sided with us. We stuck it to those dirty northerners

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Alfred the Great translated Gregory the Great's 'Pastoral Care', Boethius's 'Consolation of Philosophy', St. Augustine's 'Soliloquies' and the first fifty psalms of the Psalter into Old English and distributed them around his kingdom. I'd say they were pretty important
Then there's the 'Life of Alfred' which details Alfred the Great's life, written by a monk named Asser
Bede's 'Ecclesiastical History of the English people' must be up there

I'd plump for the Anglo-Saxon chronicle though, even though it's not a book in the proper sense

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>>3346565

>>3347287
Oh, for a moment I touht you were a Calicuck. Kochinese are top lads

>>3346653

I prefer Fernão Mendes Pinto's "pilgrimage" tough
It's like Marco Polo book but much better

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Out of my way fellow Americans

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>>3346565
Pretty much everything by this guy.

>>3346914
That's Moby Dick.