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Cuba
Havana Year Zero by Karla Suarez, translated by Christina MacSweeney and published in 2020 by Charco Press was a pleasure to read, both...
Nina
Jul 17, 20211 min read
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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...
Nina
Jan 20, 20211 min read
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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...
Nina
Jan 9, 20212 min read
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Australia
It was clear to me when choosing an Australian novel, that fiction written by someone of Aboriginal descent, that spoke to the cultural...
Nina
Jan 7, 20211 min read
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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...
Nina
Oct 27, 20201 min read
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Sweden
Leif G.W. Persson's Another Time, Another Place, translated by Paul Norlen and published in 2012 by Doubleday. This novel was originally...
Nina
Oct 25, 20201 min read
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Mexico
Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season, translated by Sophie Hughes was originally published in 2017. The edition I read was published in...
Nina
Oct 6, 20201 min read
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Netherlands
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, translated in to English by Michele Hutchison, originally published in 2018, the...
Nina
Oct 5, 20201 min read
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Oman
Celestial Bodies, written by Omani author Jokha Alharthi and translated from Arabic in to English by Marilyn Booth, was published by...
Nina
Jul 9, 20201 min read
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Japan
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino, translated by Alexander O. Smith with Elye J. Alexander. This thriller was initially...
Nina
Jun 25, 20201 min read
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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...
Nina
Jun 5, 20201 min read
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Argentina
Tender is the Flesh was published by Pushkin Press this year. Translated from Spanish by Sarah Moses, Agustina Bazterrica's novel is a...
Nina
Jun 1, 20201 min read
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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,...
Nina
May 7, 20201 min read
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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...
Nina
Apr 10, 20201 min read
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Nigeria
The official language of Nigeria is English and while other national languages were mentioned in the novel, namely Hausa and Yoruba, My...
Nina
Mar 17, 20201 min read
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Haiti
Alphabet of the Night by Jean-Euphele Milce was first published in French in 2004. It was translated by Christopher Moncrieff and...
Nina
Mar 14, 20201 min read
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Israel
While browsing in my local bookshop I found Liar by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen. Originally written in Hebrew, first published in Tel Aviv and...
Nina
Mar 8, 20201 min read
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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...
Nina
Mar 1, 20201 min read
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France
I always enjoy novels by Amelie Nothomb and look out for new translations. They are short, pointed and effective, often a little...
Nina
Feb 29, 20201 min read
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Iceland
History. A Mess. written by Sigrun Palsdottir and translated in to English by Lytton Smith. A novel that feels like it deserves a...
Nina
Feb 27, 20201 min read
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