Jenny Croft Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Flights: Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner
Olga TokarczukNew Year's goal: "I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it." -Flights, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by me. Miraculous onesie by @Terribleman. https://t.co/fUaaBORGyH
Paperback, 2019
$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dislocations
Sylvia MolloyI'm so proud to have translated this book. The author, the great Sylvia Molloy, read my translation just before she died, which I am also so grateful for. Precise and heartbreaking and beautiful and profound, Dislocations is out now from @CharcoPress. https://t.co/fmtLrmeTm2
Paperback, 2022
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What Feelings Do When No One's Looking
Tina OziewiczSo grateful for this beautiful review of my translation of What Feelings Do When No One's Looking (@elsewherebks) by @MeghanGurdon for @WSJBooks! https://www.wsj.com/articles/childrens-books-review-gratitude-envy-and-a-dash-of-insouciance-11657897972
Hardcover, 2022
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan DiazGlamour shots from the @KirkusReviews Prize in Austin, featuring Hernan Diaz with his lovely trophy for TRUST https://t.co/Hcr3VEzHm7
Paperback, 2023
$17.00Member price:$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Two Sherpas
Sebastián Martínez DaniellMy latest translation comes out on February 28 but is already earning rave reviews! Thanks so much to Ben East and @ObserverUK for these kind words. (You can now preorder this beauty by Sebastián Martínez Daniell from @CharcoPress!) https://t.co/Vte0gXlc08
Paperback, 2023
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Brilliant Friend
Elena FerranteSo looking forward to spending this evening with Sam Bett, Ann Goldstein, @MaryNorrisTNY and @reynoldsmichael to talk about Elena Ferrante and My Brilliant Friend! You can join us at 9 pm EST/6 pm PST by registering here (it's free!): https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-brilliant-friendsafter-dinner-book-club-watch-party-tickets-102344846190 https://t.co/UMaeg8GmsF
Paperback, 2012
$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
Jayant KaikiniSo very delighted for NO PRESENTS PLEASE by Jayant Kaikini, translated from Kannada by @TejaswiniNiran1, published by @CatapultStory! It was an honor to judge this year's National Translation Award for @LitTranslate with @AntonHur and Annie Janusch. https://literarytranslators.wordpress.com/2021/10/16/announcing-the-winner-of-the-2021-national-translation-award-in-prose-no-presents-please/
Paperback, 2017
$12.00Member price:$6.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aftermath
Preti TanejaTremendously excited to start reading AFTERMATH by @PretiTaneja from @transitbks! https://t.co/xiMtQD3mrM
Paperback, 2021
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A Perfect Cemetery
Federico FalcoIt's the Day of the Dead today, the perfect time to read my translation of @FalcoFed's gorgeous, brilliant A PERFECT CEMETERY, from @CharcoPress. Check it out, along with four other fascinating collections, at @lithub, thanks to @prepartynap! https://t.co/VUAKrpwYCG
Paperback, 2021
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grey Bees
Andrey KurkovYou'll laugh! You'll cry! Read GREY BEES, the great sweet Ukrainian war novel by Andrey Kurkov (trans. Boris Dralyuk, aka Papa), out now from @maclehosepress and @DeepVellum. https://t.co/Qqp8ywkDan
Paperback, 2022
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book