Center for the Art of Translation Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali ShreeCenter for the Art of TranslationICYMI: Kick off the new year by reading Radhika Prasad's piece on the subversive language politics of Geetanjali Shree's Ret Samadhi (TOMB OF SAND), translated from Hindi by @shreedaisy, up now on our blog! https://t.co/wseG2y1g4S https://t.co/J2ixL3AeRo
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Is Us Losing Count: Eight Russian Poets
Galina RymbuCenter for the Art of TranslationThere's *one week left* of our National Poetry Month sale @TwoLinesPress! Take 20% off at checkout when you buy Home: Arabic Poems, Cuíer: Queer Brazil, This Is Us Losing Count: Eight Russian Poets, or Visible: Text + Image. https://t.co/9rfPTjxCec
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Owlish
Dorothy TseCenter for the Art of TranslationThis week on our online journal, read an excerpt of OWLISH by Dorothy Tse, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce and forthcoming from @GraywolfPress. 🪞 https://t.co/0w0xFSObeM https://t.co/D2pHT90PYs
Paperback, 2023
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On a Woman's Madness
Astrid RoemerCenter for the Art of TranslationON A WOMAN'S MADNESS is out in just five days, coming Feb. 21! Astrid Roemer spoke to @TwoLinesPress about the memories, sensory experiences, books, and musical influences that helped shape her resonant novel of forbidden love in postcolonial Suriname: https://t.co/vgtVO4rv7r
Hardcover, 2023
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Thorn Puller
Hiromi ItoCenter for the Art of TranslationComing up on May 16 at @therubysf— Join award-winning author Hiromi Itō, translator @jeffreyangles, and poet Mia Ayumi Malhothra for a celebration of THE THORN PULLER, Hiromi Itō's first novel to appear in English, from @StoneBridgePub. Register here: https://t.co/G1dzm4E1B9 https://t.co/Y5QthkDnrf
Hardcover, 2023
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mr. President
Miguel Ángel AsturiasCenter for the Art of TranslationA new translation of Guatemalan novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias's MR. PRESIDENT means "a new generation of North American readers will gain access to his witty, influential, and wrongly maligned masterpiece." https://t.co/T1v1y12eav via @publicbooks
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ladivine
Marie NdiayeCenter for the Art of Translation@LucyScholes revisits LADIVINE (tr. Jordan Stump), a Booker Prize-nominated "unsettling masterpiece" by Marie NDiaye, the author of Self-Portrait in Green, That Time of Year, and more from Two Lines Press. https://t.co/U89tdhTKCJ
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Hurricane Season
Fernanda MelchorCenter for the Art of TranslationWe're loving this beautiful, interactive window into Sophie Hughes' phrase-by-phrase translation process, using Mexican author Fernanda Melchor's novel HURRICANE SEASON as an example. Endless goods from this issue of @nytimesbooks! https://t.co/oWSuwOa1P8
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
At the Edge of the Woods
Masatsugu OnoCenter for the Art of TranslationSo excited to see Masatsugu Ono’s AT THE EDGE OF THE WOODS, translated from Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter, on this list— in such great company, too! https://t.co/17znhOpNnE
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Thorn Puller
Hiromi ItoCenter for the Art of TranslationComing up on May 16 at @therubysf— Join award-winning author Hiromi Itō, translator @jeffreyangles, and poet Mia Ayumi Malhothra for a celebration of THE THORN PULLER, Hiromi Itō's first novel to appear in English, from @StoneBridgePub. Register here: https://t.co/G1dzm4E1B9 https://t.co/Y5QthkDnrf
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book