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Category: Translated

December 10, 2020

Revolutionary Women from Gallic Books

Reviewed by Karen Langley French literature doesn’t lack a wide range of great women writers; the names which spring most readily to mind are…

December 1, 2020

The Lost and the Damned by Olivier Norek

Translated by Nick Caistor Reviewed by Gill Davies This is the first novel by Olivier Norek to be translated into English. It was first…

November 10, 2020

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth How do you feel about the prospect of someone having sex with their grandfather? And…

October 22, 2020

The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante

Translated by Anne Goldstein Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth Adolescence can be brutal, and in The Lying Life of Adults Elena Ferrante brings it out…

October 22, 2020

One Billion Years to the End of the World by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis Reviewed by Karen Langley Science fiction writing often gets a bad press; dismissed as lightweight genre writing, mocked for…

October 6, 2020

Daughters by Lucy Fricke

Translated from the German by Sinéad Crowe Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff In the Translator’s Note at the end of Daughters, Sinéad Crowe writes of…

September 29, 2020

The Madness by Narcís Oller

Translated from the Catalan by Douglas Suttle Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff Joining the ranks of small presses dedicated to one particular region or language,…

September 22, 2020

Breasts and Eggs by Meiko Kawakami

Translated by Sam Bett & David Boyd Reviewed by Anna Hollingsworth When Breasts and Eggs appeared in bookshops alongside all the Murakamis, Convenience Store…

September 21, 2020

Journey through a Tragicomic Century: The Absurd Life of Hasso Grabner by Francis Nenik

Translated by Katy Derbyshire Reviewed by Eleanor Updegraff This September sees the launch of V&Q Books, a brand-new publishing imprint with the mission of…

September 17, 2020

People From My Neighbourhood by Hiromi Kawakami

Translated by Ted Goossen Review by Anna Hollingsworth With Hiromi Kawakami, you don’t know what to expect other than that her writing will be…

August 20, 2020

My Summer Reading: The Manual of Darkness by Enrique de Hériz

Translated by Frank Wynne Reviewed by Annabel Members of the Shiny reviewing team share previously published books from their shelves that they’re reading this…

July 30, 2020

Rolling Fields by David Trueba

Translated from Spanish by Rahul Bery Reviewed by Michael Eaude Too often, reviews are distorted because they are written by someone who knows and…

July 7, 2020

The Coral Merchant: Essential Stories by Joseph Roth

Review by Eleanor Updegraff Translated by Ruth Martin Austrian author Joseph Roth is best known – if indeed he is known at all –…

June 30, 2020

Chitambo by Hagar Olsson

Translated by Sarah Death Reviewed by Karen Langley When we think of Nordic fiction nowadays, we’re probably inevitably aware of the preponderance of Scandi-crime;…

June 30, 2020

Crisis by Karin Boye

Translated by Amanda Doxtater Reviewed by Karen Langley When we think of Nordic fiction nowadays, we’re probably inevitably aware of the preponderance of Scandi-crime;…

June 23, 2020

I Remember by Georges Perec

Introduced, Translated, Annotated, Edited and Indexed by Philip Terry and David Bellos Reviewed by Karen Langley Regular readers of Shiny New Books may recall…

June 18, 2020

The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

Translated by Yumiko Yamazaki Review by Terence Jagger This Japanese detective thriller is set in the 1940s and so is relatively ‘modern’, but only…

The Great Homecoming
June 4, 2020

The Great Homecoming by Anna Kim

Translated by Jamie Lee Searle Review by Eleanor Updegraff Ever since Han Kang and translator Deborah Smith won the 2016 Man Booker International Prize…

The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos
June 2, 2020

The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos

Translated by Sam Taylor Reviewed by Harriet Back in 1977, Marilyn French’s The Women’s Room was published. On the cover was the bold (and…

May 19, 2020

Diary Of A Foreigner In Paris, by Curzio Malaparte

Translated by Stephen Twilley Reviewed by Basil Ransome-Davies An adjective frequently applied to Curzio Malaparte is ‘colourful’. To the Cambridge dictionary it means ‘vivid,…

Bell in the Lake Lars Mytting
May 7, 2020

The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting

Translated by Deborah Dawkin Review by Harriet Lars Mytting, a Norwegian author, has had great acclaim for his two previous books – the non-fiction…

April 16, 2020

A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier

Translated by Emily Boyce Reviewed by Annabel For the past eight years, Gallic Books have been translating and publishing the gloriously black-humored noir novellas…

April 14, 2020

The Birds They Sang: Birds and People in Life and Art by Stanisław Łubieński

Translated from Polish by Bill Johnston Review by Peter Reason Stanisław Łubieński first began observing birds in childhood through Soviet binoculars. Later, he took…

March 12, 2020

Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins Review by David Hebblethwaite Winter in Sokcho is a first in several senses: the debut novel by French-Korean writer…

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February 20, 2020

Snow, Dog, Foot by Claudio Morandini

Translated by J. Ockenden Reviewed by Rebecca Foster Who could resist the title of this Italian bestseller? A black comedy about a hermit in…

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