New Vessel Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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SOME DAY is a gripping family saga. Shemi Zarhin’s hypnotic writing renders a painfully delicious vision of individual lives behind Israel's larger national story. “Beautiful ... reading the book feels like going back in time."—Yael Stone, actor https://t.co/Sy1IjrlJHd https://t.co/e0QSRcy0Ze

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Congratulations to @ClaireWadie for her rendition of OF SAINTS AND MIRACLES by Manuel Astur being longlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize to "honor the craft of translation" of a literary work from any living European language into English. https://t.co/hsuhtYNxI0 https://t.co/dYu6ARgFiu

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@b_judah "Describing music is a fool’s errand," author Lea Singer writes in her novel about Vladimir Horowitz, THE PIANO STUDENT. "Music begins where language fails. How can one expect to transform it into words after the fact? It’s better to hear it in your head." https://t.co/XH6JJqNkyh

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Celebrate @santjordiusa with @NewVesselPress translators, April 26, 4:30 pm EDT: @bdantaslobato reading @GardelStenio THE WORDS THAT REMAIN, Liz Lauffer reading Hans von Trotha POLLAK'S ARM, and @NatashaLehrer reading Adrien Goetz VILLA OF DELIRIUM. https://t.co/ysbcH8VbFZ

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"This provocative novel raises urgent questions about family legacy, human trafficking, atonement and memory. Full of unexpected twists and humor."—@HadassahMag on PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT by Agur Schiff, translated from Hebrew by Jessica Cohen. https://t.co/GOapRvce2O

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ADUA by Igiaba Scego. "This incantatory novel is a dialogue between a freedom-seeking daughter and her traditionalist father.” @BostonGlobe "Utterly sublime." @MaazaMengiste, author of The Shadow King https://t.co/8rF3RcgzZw https://t.co/5WLiNBDIM4

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Pierre Le-Tan’s A FEW COLLECTORS @iheartSAM shop and a museum or bookstore near you. “Utterly brilliant & charming.AFewCollectors reminds me of Paris France by Gertrude Stein: pithy, light of touch, conversational, disarmingly revealing.”-Monique Truong,author of The Book of Salt https://t.co/77EZ4KJrXl

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I CALLED HIM NECKTIE: “Flašar’s exquisite, finely wrought novel is both a prose poem and a parable about how we deflect, defer and disconnect from life, and what is needed before we can bravely embrace it again.” Monique Truong, author of The Book of Salt https://t.co/K6VmQFw63k https://t.co/b1MpNtKTrB

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Pierre Le-Tan’s A FEW COLLECTORS at the fabulous new @mcnallyjackson bookstore on Prince Street in NY’s SoHo. “Splendidly written, engagingly illustrated … An ode to the oddities of collectors.”—Steven Heller, former NY Times art director https://t.co/w9T64FULSV #PierreLeTan https://t.co/Bi8kZHa5rM

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"Serves up heaping portions of yearning, passion, alienation, and regret, and establishes Dana Shem-Ur as one of the rising stars of the new Israeli literature."―Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus https://t.co/ifsRjij0C3