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In the coming months I plan to read books from three continents. The countries coming up include Peru, Russia, Mauritania and Togo. I’m...
Nina
Mar 4, 20221 min read
Montenegro
Catherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knežević was originally written in Croatian and translated into English by Paula Gordon and...
Nina
Feb 27, 20221 min read
Uruguay
The Luminous Novel by Mario Levrero was published posthumously in 2005, Annie McDermott’s English translation was published in 2021 by...
Nina
Feb 23, 20221 min read
Romania
Fem by Magda Carneci, translated by Sean Cotter and published in 2021 by Deep Vellum Publishing. This novel was originally published in...
Nina
Jan 13, 20221 min read
Brazil
I've started 2022 with Brazilian author Julián Fuks' Occupation. Translated by Daniel Hahn and published in 2021 by Charco Press, this...
Nina
Jan 4, 20221 min read
Angola
A General Theory of Oblivion was written by José Eduardo Agualusa and published in the original Portuguese in 2012. Translated into...
Nina
Dec 5, 20211 min read
33/196. Some highlights.
In seeking some commonality in the novels I read I realised that they question our humanity, our relationships to family, friends and the...
Nina
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Slovenia
Mitja Cander's Blind Man was translated by Rawley Grau and published by Istros Books in 2021. I read a paperback that I found in...
Nina
Nov 3, 20211 min read
Finland
Inlands by Elin Willows, translated by Duncan J Lewis and published in 2020 by Nordisk Books. Born in Sweden, Elin Willows has lived in...
Nina
Nov 3, 20211 min read
China
Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang, translated by Ken Liu. I read a first edition hardback, published by Head of Zeus in 2020. This...
Nina
Oct 19, 20211 min read
Publishers
This week I've been reading a short novel published by And Other Stories. In the 10 years since they came into being they have published...
Nina
Oct 11, 20212 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...
Nina
Oct 11, 20211 min read
Italy
This Italian novel, Almarina by Valeria Parrella, was originally published in 2019. Translated from Italian to English by Alex Valente,...
Nina
Oct 4, 20211 min read
Guatemala
Severina, written by Guatemalan author Rodrigo Rey Rosa and translated by Chris Andrews. This edition was published by Yale University...
Nina
Sep 16, 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...
Nina
Sep 14, 20211 min read
United Kingdom
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden, published by Canongate Books in 2021. It was hard to pick a book from the #UnitedKingdom but...
Nina
Sep 13, 20211 min read
Algeria
I chose a novel that was written by a woman who was born and brought up in Algeria but currently lives in France, is in fact both French...
Nina
Aug 30, 20211 min read
Spain
Published by Pushkin Press in 2020 and originally published in 2018, Learning to Talk to Plants by Marta Orriols was translated from...
Nina
Aug 28, 20211 min read
Germany
Marion Poschmann's The Pine Islands was translated by Jen Calleja and first published in German in 2017. I read a paperback published in...
Nina
Aug 1, 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...
Nina
Jul 18, 20211 min read
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