For me it’s gotta be “Morte e Vida Severina”/ “Severino Death and Life”. It’s an epic poem narrating the journey of a poor man from Northeastern Brazil, a famously poor and segregated region that’s frequently affected by severe droughts, fleeing from his home and walking to the big city to survive the season. On the way he describes all the misery he experiences and sees.
One stanza that has stuck with me for years goes something like this "And all of us Severinos/With the same lives/Will die of the same/Severe Severino death,/The death died of/Old age before thirty/Of an ambush before twenty/And of hunger day by day/(Of weakness and plague/The Severino death/attacks at all ages/even those not born)
“You are not alone” by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik is one of my favorite books. The book is in Arabic and to my knowledge there is not translation of it. It is a collection of short stories in the science fiction/ horror/ paranormal genre. The stories were very well crafted and successfully kept me at the edge of my seat all the way to the end.