GlobalLiteratureinLibrariesInitiative Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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The Flowers of Buffoonery, by Osamu Dazai, tr. by Sam Bett. The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba―the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age―is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. #JapaneseLit https://t.co/jrzqNiaIX9

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Kibogo, by Scholastique Mukasonga, tr. by Mark Polizzotti. In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs & the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity. #RwandanLit #WIT🧵 https://t.co/QIyG4rI7Wc

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The Blue Book of Nebo, by Manon Steffan Ros, translated by the author. A spellbinding picture of society’s collapse, & the relationships that persist after everything as we know it disappears. https://t.co/lGpI8DVU4W #IntlYALitMonth #IntlYALit #WelshYALit #YALit #Dystopia🧵 https://t.co/tILa6HFXT3

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The Book of Not, by Tsitsi Dangarembga. The Book of Not continues the saga of Tambudzai, picking up where Nervous Conditions left off. #WomensHistoryMonth #ZimbabweanLit🧵 https://t.co/gJwAmwanUM

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Farewell, Ghosts, by Nadia Terranova, tr. by Ann Goldstein. This novel received multiple awards. Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl, twenty-three years earlier, when her father left one morning, never to return. #ItalianLit #WITMonth https://t.co/Dpp2dtLq0Z

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Cloud Cuckoo Land, by Anthony Doerr. Read the comments of the judges and nominating library, Katona József Library in Hungary, here: https://t.co/ZAJfABk080 Shortlisted for the 2023 Dublin Literary Award. 8/14 🧵 https://t.co/wC6U9gdr2G

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Will Williams, by Namwali Serpell. In the modern retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's 'William Wilson,' a young Black man's paranoia escalates as he is followed, challenged, & terrorized by a doppelgänger bent on sabotaging his life. #WomensHistoryMonth #Disorder6 #ZambianLit🧵 https://t.co/pVPbDeBbmD

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Sugar Town Queens, by @MallaNunn. From LA Times Book Prize Award Winner & Edgar Award Nominee Malla Nunn comes a stunning portrait of a family divided & the bonds that knit our communities. #WomensHistoryMonth #IntlYALit #YALit🧵 https://t.co/llA5jbszqz

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The Art of Binding People: A Memoir, by Paolo Milone, tr. by Lucy Rand. From one of Italy’s most brilliant psychiatrists, a moving & transformative journey into the most mysterious, heartbreaking, & awe-inspiring corners of the human mind. #ItalianLit #Memoirs #Forthcoming https://t.co/QLO9R2XhO2

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An Elegy for Easterly: Stories, by @VascoDaGappah. In her spirited #debut collection, Petina Gappah brings us the resilience & inventiveness of the people who struggle to live under Robert Mugabe’s regime. Winner, Guardian First Book Prize. #WomensHistoryMonth #ZimbabweanLit🧵 https://t.co/BVQDEiAPrF