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January 2023 Book Club Report: Tender is the Flesh (tr. Sarah Moses) & Ghachar Ghochar (tr. Srinath Perur)

January 2023 Book Club Report: Tender is the Flesh (tr. Sarah Moses) & Ghachar Ghochar (tr. Srinath Perur)

by Harriett Press | Feb 20, 2023 | Blog, Book Club, Books, Translated Fiction, Translators

January 2023 Book Club Our book club wasn’t able to meet up the last few months of last year because of our busy schedules, so we decided to combine two books and discuss them in January! It was great seeing each other online again and exchanging views on translated...
July 2022 Book Club Report: Andrey Kurkov’s Milkman in the Night (tr. Amanda Love Darragh)

July 2022 Book Club Report: Andrey Kurkov’s Milkman in the Night (tr. Amanda Love Darragh)

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...
June 2022 Book Club Report: David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black (tr. Anna Moschovakis)

June 2022 Book Club Report: David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black (tr. Anna Moschovakis)

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...
May 2022 Book Club Report: Claudio Pineiro’s Elena Knows (tr. Frances Riddle)

May 2022 Book Club Report: Claudio Pineiro’s Elena Knows (tr. Frances Riddle)

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...
April 2022 Book Club Report: Seo Su-jin’s Korean Teachers (tr. Elizabeth Buehler)

April 2022 Book Club Report: Seo Su-jin’s Korean Teachers (tr. Elizabeth Buehler)

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...
March 2022 Book Club Report: Broken Stars (tr. Ken Liu)

March 2022 Book Club Report: Broken Stars (tr. Ken Liu)

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...
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  • June 2022 Book Club Report: David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black (tr. Anna Moschovakis)
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  • April 2022 Book Club Report: Seo Su-jin’s Korean Teachers (tr. Elizabeth Buehler)

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