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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

Jan 7, 20211 min read

Australia

It was clear to me when choosing an Australian novel, that fiction written by someone of Aboriginal descent, that spoke to the cultural...

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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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Nina

Jun 1, 20201 min read

Argentina

Tender is the Flesh was published by Pushkin Press this year. Translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses, Agustina Bazterrica's novel is a...

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Nina

May 7, 20201 min read

Ireland

In the acknowledgments at the back of Eimear McBride's Strange Hotel is a short note "Thanks to my editors Alex Bowler and Mitzi Angel,...

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Nina

Apr 10, 20201 min read

Norway

It's odd to be reading international fiction when a pandemic is working its way around the globe. The fiction I am reading reflects a...

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Nina

Mar 17, 20201 min read

Nigeria

The official language of Nigeria is English and while other national languages were mentioned in the novel, namely Hausa and Yoruba, My...

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Nina

Mar 14, 20201 min read

Haiti

Alphabet of the Night by Jean-Euphele Milce was first published in French in 2004. It was translated by Christopher Moncrieff and...

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Nina

Mar 8, 20201 min read

Israel

While browsing in my local bookshop I found Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Originally written in Hebrew, first published in Tel Aviv and...

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Nina

Mar 1, 20201 min read

Poland

Four generations of women live, or have lived, in Lwow. This is the premise of "The House with the Stained-Glass Window" written in...

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Nina

Feb 29, 20201 min read

France

I always enjoy novels by Amelie Nothomb and look out for new translations. They are short, pointed and effective, often a little...

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Nina

Feb 27, 20201 min read

Iceland

History. A Mess. written by Sigrun Palsdottir and translated in to English by Lytton Smith. A novel that feels like it deserves a...

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