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Women in Translation month
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Women in Translation month
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Sunday, 31 August 2014
Days in the History of Silence by Merethe Lindstrøm (translator Anne Bruce)
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There is something quite arresting in the style of Days in the History of Silence. It has a particularly soft voice, a reflective tone, a s...
Monday, 25 August 2014
Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa (translator Stephen Snyder)
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I may have mentioned before that I love Japanese fiction, and Yoko Ogawa is a writer I really admire. My first encounter with Ogawa was The...
Saturday, 23 August 2014
70% Acrylic 30% Wool by Viola di Grado (translator Michael Reynolds)
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Continuing my exploration of female writers in translation, I had an interesting encounter with this, frankly, crazy book by Italian writer...
Sunday, 17 August 2014
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon (translated by Ivan Morris)
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The Pillow Book has been sitting by my pillow for an awful long time. I tried to read it last year, but wasn’t in the right frame of mind s...
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