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Nina
Dec 5, 20211 min read
Angola
A General Theory of Oblivion was written by José Eduardo Agualusa and published in the original Portuguese in 2012. Translated into...
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Nina
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Switzerland
Proleterka is a short novel by Swiss author, Fleur Jaeggy. Written in Italian, it was originally published in 2001 and translated into...
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Nina
Sep 16, 20211 min read
Guatemala
Severina, written by Guatemalan author Rodrigo Rey Rosa and translated by Chris Andrews. This edition was published by Yale University...
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Nina
Sep 14, 20211 min read
Kazakhstan
A Life At Noon by Talasbek Asemkulov was translated from the original Kazakh into English by Shelley Fairweather-Vega. Published by the...
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Nina
Jul 18, 20211 min read
Denmark
Browsing through my local bookshop I was pleasantly surprised to find The Employees by Olga Ravn, translated into English from the...
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Nina
Jul 17, 20211 min read
Cuba
Havana Year Zero by Karla Suarez, translated by Christina MacSweeney and published in 2020 by Charco Press was a pleasure to read, both...
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Nina
Jan 20, 20211 min read
Japan
There's No Such Thing As An Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura, translated by Polly Barton. I read the paperback edition published by Bloomsbury...
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Nina
Jan 9, 20212 min read
At the end of the year
Over 2020 I chose to travel from continent to continent as I read novels, partly to get a sense of travel as our movement was limited by...
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Nina
Oct 27, 20201 min read
Republic of Korea
Bae Suah's Untold Night and Day, translated by Deborah Smith and published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. The story of Ayami, starts quite...
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Nina
Oct 25, 20201 min read
Sweden
Leif G.W. Persson's Another Time, Another Place, translated by Paul Norlen and published in 2012 by Doubleday. This novel was originally...
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Nina
Oct 6, 20201 min read
Mexico
Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season, translated by Sophie Hughes was originally published in 2017. The edition I read was published in...
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Nina
Oct 5, 20201 min read
Netherlands
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated in to English by Michele Hutchison, originally published in 2018, the...
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Nina
Jul 9, 20201 min read
Oman
Celestial Bodies, written by Omani author Jokha Alharthi and translated from Arabic in to English by Marilyn Booth, was published by...
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Nina
Jun 25, 20201 min read
Japan
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith with Elye J. Alexander. This thriller was initially...
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Nina
Jun 5, 20201 min read
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Friend by Paek Nom-Nyang, translated by Immanuel Kim, published by Columbia University Press in 2020. The first North Korean novel to be...
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