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
Visible: Text + Image
Marie NdiayeCenter for the Art of TranslationThis season at @TwoLinesPress saw the release of 3 new books— Visible: Text + Image, Hugs & Cuddles, and Days Come & Go— each one a world unto itself. Read below to learn more about each one, plus more on recent reviews, readings, and author discussions. https://t.co/aCjKpzburZ
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + 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
When They Broke Down The Door: Poems
Fatemeh ShamsCenter for the Art of TranslationSpring 2023 at Two Lines begins today! Kick off this season of our online journal by reading two striking poems by Fatemeh Shams, translated from Persian by Armen Davoudian: https://t.co/2Gtf4NgMEM https://t.co/iAWWMjHRuw
Paperback, 2016
$25.00$12.50 + 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
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
Things Fall Apart
Chinua AchebeCenter for the Art of TranslationYour #FridayReads: 7 African Novels that aren't Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, on our blog. https://www.catranslation.org/blog-post/seven-african-classics-that-arent-things-fall-apart/
Paperback, 1994
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Empty Wardrobes
Maria Judite de CarvalhoCenter for the Art of TranslationWhat to read before heading to Portugal? How about Maria Judite de Carvalho's EMPTY WARDROBES (tr. Margaret Jull Costa)? The novel "will give you a sense of domestic life under the Salazar dictatorship." https://t.co/LVXsA5qbnU
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Days Come and Go
Hemley BoumCenter for the Art of TranslationTOMORROW: Join @AFSeattle & @ElliottBayBooks for an online discussion about DAYS COME AND GO with author Hemley Boum, translator @NMNjamnsi. Hemley and Nchanji will be in conversation with writer @nkiacha. We can't wait! Register here: https://t.co/tqLQN3k3df https://t.co/NVNv34HojU
Hardcover, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + 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