Then we take Berlin… But for how long? Gabriele Tergit wrote Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm right after the story unfolded. Berlin in the late 1920s was at its most shimmering, glorious, and frenetic. But pride comes before a fall and…
Blog Archives
Käsebier takes Berlin
Tagged with: books, Gabrielle Tergit, German, Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm, Käsebier takes Berlin, Pushkin Press, Rohwolt, Sophie Duvernoy, Translation
Posted in books, history
Posted in books, history
The Little Pike that Swam Out Of Lapland
Some books go far. Some have a vast marketing machine behind them. Others have an adoring aunt that’s always inviting them round for coffee and cake, digging around her own bookshelves for that particular edition that might just help, and…
Tagged with: books, Finnish, Finnish Literature Exchange, Pienen hauen pyydystys, Pushkin Press, Restless Books, Siltala, Summer Fishing in Lapland, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
The Passenger
This book was written on the run. It captures that moment after 9 November 1938 where things got a lot worse for a lot of people, very rapidly. Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz, then aged 23, had made it out of Germany…
Tagged with: 9 November 1938, books, Der Reisende, German, Klett-Cotta Verlag, Philip Boehm, Pushkin Press, The Passenger, Translation, Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz
Posted in books, history, translation
Posted in books, history, translation
Secret passages under my hometown
When someone writes about the streets where you live, you feel immediately predisposed towards them. You want to like everything they say, and even if you don’t like it, you will certainly have an opinion. The woman who translates many…
Tagged with: books, Finnish, Jyväskylä, Lola Rogers, Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen, Pushkin Press, Secret Passages from a Hillside Town, Translation
Posted in books, translation
Posted in books, translation
1917
It’s a hundred years since the October Revolution. What was it really like at the time, when nobody knew how it would end? Was all the violence worth it? Was a new dawn really breaking? This hugely varied collection of…
Tagged with: 1917, books, Boris Dralyuk, Josh Briggs, Martha Kelly, Poetry, Pushkin Press, Robert Chandler, Russian, Russian Revolution, Translation
Posted in books, history, translation
Posted in books, history, translation
Just ahead of the revolution
“Moscow. Autumn. Cold. My Petersburg life has been liquidated.” If Twitter had been invented 100 years ago, perhaps Teffi would have had quite a following. She is certainly concise, doesn’t appear to take herself and her craft too seriously, but shares highly entertaining vignettes,…
Tagged with: 1917, Anne Marie Jackson, Elizabeth Chandler, Irina Steinberg, Memories - From Moscow to the Black Sea, Pushkin Press, Robert Chandler, Russian, Russian Revolution, Teffi, Translation
Posted in books, history, translation
Posted in books, history, translation
Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery
Maresi, Chronicles of the Red Monastery, was the book I read by the Christmas tree this year; next year you could be doing the same. The splendid Pushkin Press has just bought the English rights. The author, the Swedish Finn…
Tagged with: Athos, Cornelia Funke, Fantasy, Fiction, Finlandia Junior 2014, Finnish, German, Goddess, Inkheart, J. R. R. Tolkien, Maresi, Maria Turtschaninoff, Marja Kyrö, Millenium trilogy, Pushkin Press, Stieg Larsson, Swedish, Translation, YA
Posted in books
Posted in books
found in translation 