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Nina

Feb 27, 20231 min read

Hungary

Laszlo Krasznahorkai's A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East was initially published in...

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Nina

Feb 24, 20231 min read

Kenya

Seasons in Hippoland, a novel written by Wanjiku Wa Ngugi, was written in English and published by Seagull Books in 2022. This is a...

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Nina

Feb 23, 20231 min read

Vietnam

Chinatown is a book by Thuan, translated by Nguyen An Ly and published by Tilted Axis in 2022. Technically I found this book tricky to...

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Nina

Sep 25, 20221 min read

Estonia

The Saviour of Lasnamae is an Estonian novel written by Mari Saat, which was translated into English by Susan Wilson and published by...

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Nina

Sep 25, 20221 min read

Egypt

Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi, translated from Arabic by Catherine Cobham was published by Saqi Books. El Saadawi tells...

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Nina

Aug 31, 20221 min read

Philippines

Aliasing by Mara Coson is an experimental, short novel published by Book Works as part of the Semina series "where the novel has a...

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Nina

Aug 28, 20221 min read

Central African Republic

Adrienne Yabouza's novel, Co-Wives, Co-Widows, was published by Dedalus Books in 2021 and in its original French in 2015. It was...

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Nina

Aug 20, 20221 min read

Turkey

The Aziz Bey Incident by Ayfer Tunç, translated from Turkish by Stephanie Ates and published by Istros Books in 2013. Stories about...

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Nina

Aug 19, 20221 min read

Indonesia

Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated into English by Annie Tucker and published by Pushkin Press in 2016. This novel was...

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Nina

Aug 16, 20221 min read

Bulgaria

Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva, translated by Izidora Angel. I read an edition published in 2021 by FaberBooks Leah, an orphan who grew...

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Nina

May 25, 20222 min read

Portugal

Now And At the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques, translated into English by Julia Sanches and published by And Other Stories...

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Nina

May 20, 20221 min read

Slovakia

The Equestrienne by Uršula Kovalyk, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood was published by @parthianbooks in 2016, but I read a 2021...

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Nina

May 8, 20222 min read

Syria

When I found this book on the shelves of my local bookshop I was relieved. So many Syrian novels published in the UK are written by...

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Nina

May 3, 20221 min read

Togo

Shadow of Things to Come by Kossi Efoui relates the experience of a young man in an unnamed African state, who has grappled and continues...

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Nina

May 3, 20221 min read

Canada

A unusual correspondence format gave the narrative of This Is How You Lose the Time War energy. Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone...

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Nina

Mar 24, 20221 min read

Mauritania

The first Mauritanian novel translated and published in English, I read The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk, translated by...

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Nina

Mar 17, 20221 min read

Russia

Just the Plague by Ludmila Ulitskaya was translated from the original Russian by Polly Gannon and published in 2021 by Granta. This story...

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Nina

Mar 16, 20221 min read

Ukraine

Some time ago I read a little about the history of Western Ukraine and its borders through the Polish book I chose to read. Yesterday I...

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Nina

Mar 8, 20221 min read

Chile

Chile provided me with quite a few good options for this global reading project but when I opened the first page of this book I could...

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Nina

Mar 6, 20221 min read

Palestine

When I initially decided I would like to embark on this project, over a decade ago, I planned to read a novel from Palestine. The...

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