Is this a Marmite book? Or maybe a sour-plum book, given the colour of the cover. My mum spent a large chunk of her childhood in Hong Kong, so she loves them, but they’re too strong for me. My mum…
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The Polyglot Lovers
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Lina Wolff, Saskia Vogel, Sweden, Swedish, The Polyglot Lovers, Translation, writing
Posted in books, gender, international, translation
Posted in books, gender, international, translation
Empty Words
“This book might change your life, or at least your handwriting.” Alejandro Zambra is not wrong about Mario Levrero’s Empty Words. Annie McDermott’s translation, out last Thursday, might just do the same for you. There are plenty of “how to…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Annie McDermott, books, Mario Levrero, Spanish, Translation, Uruguay, writing
Posted in books, translation, words
Posted in books, translation, words
To Leave with the Reindeer
What makes humans different from other creatures? We draw a clear distinction, but maybe our actions show there’s less of a difference than we think in the way we try to raise children and animals. There is a lot of…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, books, French, Kiki Smith, Olivia Rosenthal, Sophie Lewis, To Leave with the Reindeer, Translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
People in the Room
The three sisters sit at the window. From the apartment across the way, their faces are lit up, as in a (rather famous, rather older) portrait. The narrator watches them from her living room window is like a spy; she…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Argentina, books, Charlotte Whittle, Norah Lange, People in the Room, Spanish, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
The Remainder
“Every now and then a book makes my fingers itch to translate it from the very first pages,” says Sophie Hughes. This is one of those books; her translation of Alia Trabucco Zerán’s The Remainder. Zerán’s generation are the children of Pinochet’s…
Tagged with: Alia Trabucco Zerán, And Other Stories, books, Chile, history, Sophie Hughes, Spanish, Translation
Posted in books, history, literature, translation
Posted in books, history, literature, translation
Brother in Ice
On the ice, time and space are almost impossible to measure. Yes, there might be the sun, but in winter it might not rise for long, if at all, and in summer it might not set for long, if at…
Tagged with: Alicia Kopf, And Other Stories, Arctic, books, Brother in Ice, Catalan, Mara Faye Lethem, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
The Gurugu Pledge
The stories start long before they even try to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Telling them on the mountain takes time and trust. Sometimes it’s better to wait until the lights go out, but then the griots to get going: This…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Barcelona, books, Equatorial Guinea, Jethro Soutar, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Morocco, Spanish, The Gurugu Pledge, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
Fleur Jaeggy’s Cat
Susan Sontag calls her savage, Josef Brodsky calls her extraordinary, and the Paris Review calls her book downright lovely. There isn’t much one can add to that. Fleur Jaeggy’s latest collection, translated by Gini Alhadeff, is out next month and you…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, books, Cat, Fleur Jaeggy, Gini Alhadeff, I am the Brother of XX, Italian, Switzerland, Translation, Tuulikki Pietilä
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
The Proof
Mostly, I’m just really glad I’m not sixteen any more. The crushing insecurity then is exacerbated by 24/7 bullying on social media now – not to mention the knife crime, the violence, who’d want it? Marcia doesn’t seem to like it much…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Argentina, Buenos Aires, César Aira, Mao (not that one), Nick Caistor, PEN Translation Prize, Short Story Project, Spanish, The Proof, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
this woman has the password to your relationship…
“It’s as though you had to know the password for our relationship.” Looks like Emmanuelle Pagano has got everyone’s password! Translators Sophie Lewis and Jennifer Higgins have done sterling work on the files. And Other Stories has done it again with…
Tagged with: And Other Stories, Emmanuelle Pagano, French, Jennifer Higgins, Sophie Lewis, Translation
Posted in books, gender, literature, translation
Posted in books, gender, literature, translation
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