by Harriett Press | Aug 18, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
July Book Club Originally published in Russian in 2009 and translated into English in 2011, Ukrainian author Andrey Kurkov’s Milkman in the Night (tr. Amanda Love Darragh) offers a mixture of everyday ordinary Ukrainian life, absurdism, and magicalism of sorts. Our...
by Harriett Press | Jul 5, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
June 2022 Harriett Book Club At Night All Blood is Black by French writer David Diop (tr. Anna Moschovakis) is probably one of the shortest novels our book club has read so far, but man, it packs a punch! Diop’s ability to portray a myriad of men’s emotions and the...
by Harriett Press | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
May 2022 Harriett Book Club Bodies, bodies, bodies. If there were a specific theme in Argentinian novelist Claudia Pineiro’s Elena Knows (tr. Frances Riddle), it would be hideous, infirm, malformed bodies, the way they move and feel and think, as well as how religion...
by Harriett Press | May 4, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
April 2022 Harriett Book Club It was no doubt a pity that in the end Lizzie, the translator of Korean Teachers, couldn’t join us for our online book club because of technical difficulties on her side. I’m not gonna lie that I’m disappointed the book launch was...
by Harriett Press | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
March 2022 Harriett Book Club Before our book club meeting in March, I asked our members for help via our WhatsApp group chat: how do we define science fiction? I’d started to read a few chapters of Broken Stars, an anthology of 16 Chinese science fiction stories...
by Harriett Press | Mar 7, 2022 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators
February 2022 Harriett Book Club We were so fortunate to have renowned Marathi writer and film maker Sachin Kundalkar join our February book club to shed more light into his debut novel, Cobalt Blue, which, his own words, has been beautifully translated by Jerry...
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