WorldInTranslation

Reading a novel from every nation state (possible) 📚

[Marina Sofia @MarinaSofia8]

Don't know where to start for #WITMonth? I might have a couple (ok, more than a couple) of recommendations for you... https://t.co/RSHcraMdxr

[Marcel Proust @Daily_Proust]

his playing has become so transparent, so imbued with what he is interpreting, that one no longer sees the performer himself—he is simply a window opening upon a great work of art

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

One of the 20th century’s great poems, on which Donald Justice played an inspired variation.

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Fiction from Thailand. Venom by Saneh Sangsuk, translated by Mui Poopoksakul.

A short novel about snakes!

#thaifiction #fiction #novella #reading

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@i_am_mill_i_am It probably depends on the supermarket and part of the country.

[John Mitchinson @johnmitchinson]

'Metal' #Eton

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Monique Ilboudo’s So Distant From My Life, translated by Yarri Kamara & published by @tiltedaxisbooks

This story is about a young man who takes his opportunity to move to another country, a story of why that’s difficult. #novel #fiction #booktwt #BurkinaFaso

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@Lillie_Langtry @MarinaSofia8 @JoannaCannon Imagine how expensive it would get to date on this schedule and pay for everything. Perhaps she needs to try paying to get that perspective.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

“My strange, distant feet walked. The child lay like a shadow in the cot as I opened the door.” Fiction by Olga Ravn. https://t.co/fx5EHnmmp0

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A little break from translated fiction to read Lucy by The Sea by Elizabeth Strout (published by @VikingBooks). The 3rd pandemic novel I’ve read, more direct than the others, is taking me back to the bewildered disorientation of 2020.

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This World Does Not Belong To Us by Natalia Garcia Freire, translated by Victor Meadowcroft and published in 2022 by @OneworldNews.

Characterised by a looming dread, this is a well written horror focused on Lucas, who has returned home. #Ecuador #fiction #novel

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Voices of the Lost by Lebanese author Hoda Bakarat, translated by Marilyn Booth. This edition was published by @OneworldNews in English in 2021.

A quick read with displacement as a central theme. I enjoyed the narrative structure, particularly in the first part of the book.

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@i_am_mill_i_am @BacklistedPod I really love Offshore. Previously I had only read The Bookshop and hadn’t really experienced Penelope Fitzgerald’s writing. I wish I had read it at 16, it would have loomed so large in my head.

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The Blunder by Mutt-Lon, translated from French by Amy B Reid and published by Amazon Crossing in 2022.

A short satire, set mainly in the 1920s, about colonialism, racial stereotyping and medicine. Unsettling and unfortunately familiar #Cameroon #fiction #novel #translation

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The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili, translated by Elizabeth Heighway, published by @PeirenePress in 2020.

Quite a violent novel about assault and neglect, centred around Lela, an orphan at a residential school. Grim with a great end. #BookTwitter #novel #fiction

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I’ve been enjoying @realmagicbooks, a great addition to Wendover’s high street.

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What book would you recommend for a discerning 11 year old who loves The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis and Tom’s Midnight Garden?

[Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr]

more Lisel Mueller

[Boris Dralyuk @BorisDralyuk]

Today is the anniversary of the launch of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—and the birthday of Weldon Kees, a poet keenly sensitive to the catastrophes of his era. The refugee in this poem is, by ironic etymology, “the home of man”; he’s based on Wolfgang Born, emigre artist.

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A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, A River to the East by László Krasznahorkai, translated from #hungarian by Ottile Mulzet. This edition was published by Tuskar Rock Press/ @ProfileBooks

#hungarianfiction #novel #BookTwitter #translationthurs