Jeffrey Zuckerman 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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knight-errant + anti-vampire | | | currently translating: Sami Tchak's THE CONTINENT OF ALL AND OF ALMOST NONE
Silence of the Chagos
Shenaz PatelJeffrey Zuckerman@LoveCrochet6 @ajplus @Julie28086389 @hrw Yep! David Vine’s ISLAND OF SHAME and Philippe Sands’s THE LAST COLONY provide the clear-eyed facts. And novels like Shenaz Patel’s SILENCE OF THE CHAGOS and Caroline Laurent’s AN IMPOSSIBLE RETURN are a remarkable feat of research-based storytelling.
Paperback, 2019
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blindsight
Herve GuibertJeffrey Zuckerman@GarryowenBarks @aliner @ronslate @nightboatbooks It was translated as Blindsight by James Kirkup (translation is fine enough, could benefit from a proper edit). Out of print, but you can snag a copy cheap here: https://t.co/iuGDmtbUru
Out of stock
Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia
David VineJeffrey Zuckerman@LoveCrochet6 @ajplus @Julie28086389 @hrw Yep! David Vine’s ISLAND OF SHAME and Philippe Sands’s THE LAST COLONY provide the clear-eyed facts. And novels like Shenaz Patel’s SILENCE OF THE CHAGOS and Caroline Laurent’s AN IMPOSSIBLE RETURN are a remarkable feat of research-based storytelling.
Paperback, 2011
$33.00$16.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eve Out of Her Ruins
Ananda DeviJeffrey ZuckermanIn 2017, my début translation, Ananda Devi's EVE OUT OF HER RUINS, won the Firecracker Award in Fiction. How wonderful, in 2023, to see 3 translations on the shortlist: STORIES OF A LIFE tr. @fiona_ina_bell VIOLETS tr. @antonhur WHEN I SING, MOUNTAINS DANCE tr. Mara Faye Lethem https://t.co/pm3R3PMP7C
Paperback, 2016
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice, and Courage
Philippe SandsJeffrey Zuckerman@LoveCrochet6 @ajplus @Julie28086389 @hrw Yep! David Vine’s ISLAND OF SHAME and Philippe Sands’s THE LAST COLONY provide the clear-eyed facts. And novels like Shenaz Patel’s SILENCE OF THE CHAGOS and Caroline Laurent’s AN IMPOSSIBLE RETURN are a remarkable feat of research-based storytelling.
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Crossroads
Jonathan FranzenJeffrey ZuckermanJonathan Crossroads ᴀ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ Franzen is introducing a new (co-)translation! https://t.co/wOMf2ZXhuq
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pina
Titaua PeuJeffrey ZuckermanIn New Haven next Wednesday? Join us at @YaleTranslation at 4 pm as I talk about Titaua Peu's PINA, the tricks of finding an English voice for Mā'ohi writers, and the ethics of what translators owe their authors and their readers. (What a fun reason to return to my alma mater!) https://t.co/MOhpeCnxOv
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Speedboat
Renata AdlerJeffrey Zuckerman“As it turns out, readers who started with Speedboat and Pitch Dark came to know [Renata] Adler backwards. They—we; I—hardly knew her at all.” https://t.co/3Ncsb2qWiV
Paperback, 2013
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rebecca
Daphne du MaurierJeffrey ZuckermanAfter a translation chock-full of puns and a translation packed to the gills with elaborate anglicisms, such a pleasure to sit down with a translation that feels like nothing so much as Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA.
Out of stock
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan KarunatilakaJeffrey ZuckermanThis is quite the author-at-work-in-his-office photo. (Shehan Karunatilaka, whose THE SEVEN MOONS OF MAALI ALMEIDA has just been shortlisted for @TheBookerPrizes) https://t.co/KjFY3kprpv
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book