Akin Akinwumi Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Notable strong contenders: The Black Cathedral—Marcial Gala (tr. Anna Kushner) @fsgbooks Sterling Karat Gold—Isabel Waidner @PressPeninsula Slipping—Mohamed Kheir @TwoLinesPress The Promise—Damon Galgut @EuropaEditions I Is Another—Jon Fosse (tr. Damion Searls) @transitbks 2/5

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Perfect opportunity to sing the praises of Helen Weinzweig's cult classic Basic Black With Pearls. It's a hypnotic novel that explodes the espionage genre while blurring the lines between the real and the imagined. One of my all-time favorite works of fiction. https://t.co/y8m00IZ38j

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Thanks to @pd_christie who recently tweeted about it, I’m finally reading Knut Hamsun’s Hunger (the Sverre Lyngstad translation). It’s been excellent so far and extremely compelling despite the subject-matter. https://t.co/gsF9ZhMyV7

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And if you haven’t read it, I’ll highly recommend checking out @babakl’s equally brilliant novella Floating Notes, published by the late Giancarlo DiTrapano of Tyrant Books. https://www.nytyrant.com/products/floating-notes-by-babak-lakghomi https://t.co/Y8rlvsVhbe

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Notable strong contenders: A Treatise on Stars—Mei-mei Berssenbrugge @NewDirections Negative Space—Luljeta Lleshanaku (tr. Ani Gjika) @NewDirections That Was Now, This Is Then—Vijay Seshadri @GraywolfPress Mitochondrial Night—Ed Bok Lee @Coffee_House_ 5/5

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Can’t wait for you to read this gorgeous, highly original novel by @babakl. South is in conversation with books like Ice by Anna Kavan, The Taiga Syndrome by @criveragarza (tr. Suzanne Levine & Aviva Kana), and Kafka more generally. Out in August 2023 with @dundurnpress! https://t.co/s18w0GBVmp

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I didn’t really think a film adaptation of Samanta Schweblin’s Distancia de rescate (Fever Dream) would work. But after seeing it this afternoon it is clear that Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa really did justice to Schweblin’s spellbinding novel. I feel drawn to watch it again. https://t.co/Zgsij5dYJD

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Thinking about when my wife and I took turns to read Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life back in 2015. (It was the rage at the time, everyone was talking about it.) I came away feeling heavy, bulbous with sorrow, and I still wince when I see that cover.

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“A cerebral, densely referential story about solitude, cognition and unbearable ‘broken-brainitude’.” Brett Josef Grubisic’s review of @GeoffreyDMorri1’s Falling Hour is perceptive, on point, and a joy to read. https://t.co/caqtDzHfTM

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So very excited to be working with @robin_ep_myers on her brilliant, genre-bending book on translation. Fans of Kate Briggs's This Little Art, Polly Barton's Fifty Sounds, and Mireille Gansel's Translation as Transhumance (tr. Ros Schwartz) be prepared to be utterly blown away! https://t.co/YuEce9VbOj