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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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