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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...
Nina
Feb 27, 20231 min read
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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...
Nina
Feb 24, 20231 min read
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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...
Nina
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Estonia
The Saviour of Lasnamae is an Estonian novel written by Mari Saat, which was translated into English by Susan Wilson and published by...
Nina
Sep 25, 20221 min read
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Egypt
Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi, translated from Arabic by Catherine Cobham was published by Saqi Books. El Saadawi tells...
Nina
Sep 25, 20221 min read
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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...
Nina
Aug 31, 20221 min read
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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...
Nina
Aug 28, 20221 min read
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Turkey
The Aziz Bey Incident by Ayfer Tunç, translated from Turkish by Stephanie Ates and published by Istros Books in 2013. Stories about...
Nina
Aug 20, 20221 min read
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Indonesia
Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan, translated into English by Annie Tucker and published by Pushkin Press in 2016. This novel was...
Nina
Aug 19, 20221 min read
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Bulgaria
Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva, translated by Izidora Angel. I read an edition published in 2021 by FaberBooks Leah, an orphan who grew...
Nina
Aug 16, 20221 min read
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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...
Nina
May 25, 20222 min read
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Slovakia
The Equestrienne by Uršula Kovalyk, translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood was published by @parthianbooks in 2016, but I read a 2021...
Nina
May 20, 20221 min read
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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...
Nina
May 8, 20222 min read
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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...
Nina
May 3, 20221 min read
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Canada
A unusual correspondence format gave the narrative of This Is How You Lose the Time War energy. Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone...
Nina
May 3, 20221 min read
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Mauritania
The first Mauritanian novel translated and published in English, I read The Desert and the Drum by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk, translated by...
Nina
Mar 24, 20221 min read
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Russia
Just the Plague by Ludmila Ulitskaya was translated from the original Russian by Polly Gannon and published in 2021 by Granta. This story...
Nina
Mar 17, 20221 min read
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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...
Nina
Mar 16, 20221 min read
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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...
Nina
Mar 8, 20221 min read
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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...
Nina
Mar 6, 20221 min read
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