Open Letter Books 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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Open Letter publishes literature in translation.

Four by Four
Sara Mesa
Happy pub day ✨✨ to Sara Mesa's FOUR BY FOUR (tr Katie Whittemore), "an unforgettable gothic landscape . . . that twists in ways that unsettle and thrill"—@Lvandenberg https://t.co/Epz641FNdQ https://t.co/vaWoQ4ard7
Paperback, 2020
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Left Parenthesis
Muriel Villanueva
“I want the reader to know what I’m feeling and how I’m feeling—sometimes realistic metaphor is just not enough.”—Muriel Villanueva on writing THE LEFT PARENTHESIS
Paperback, 2022
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Winter in Sokcho
Elisa Shua Dusapin
WINTER IN SOKCHO is on the @nationalbook Longlist for Translated Literature !!! We are beyond thrilled for Elisa Shua Dusapin and @aneesa50abbas 🏆 Congrats to all the authors, translators, publishers. It's an incredible list! https://www.nationalbook.org/2021-national-book-awards-longlist-for-translated-literature/
Paperback, 2021
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Age of Skin
Dubravka Ugresic
"At the surface of her observations, on their skin, is the pallor of the misogyny uniting the mafioso autocrats of so many post-democratic states." Dubravka Ugresic's THE AGE OF SKIN (out next month!) reviewed by @quinnlatimer for @MousseMagazine http://moussemagazine.it/book-reviews-quinn-latimer-mm73-2020/ https://t.co/AlZBsnAnj7
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wolfskin
Lara Moreno
OUT TODAY! WOLFSKIN by Lara Moreno https://t.co/yTuCDack6S
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Remembered Part
Rodrigo Fresan
If you don’t follow @TwoMonthReview, our podcast for breaking down complicated, “difficult” books, get on board now! New season is about to launch all about Rodrigo Fresán’s THE REMEMBERED PART. https://t.co/MI2IFsokli
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mothers Don't
Katixa Agirre
Our first Translator Triptych, curated by @mkwhittemore, made a second appearance in @nytbooks, this time with MOTHERS DON’T by @katixagirre | Katie Whittemore. If you didn’t catch it online or prefer your reviews in person, be sure to grab a copy of today’s @nytimes! https://t.co/vbJMpGY2A0
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
City of a Thousand Gates
Bee Sacks
@bsnacks, author of CITY OF A THOUSAND GATES and 2022 recipient of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction, reading now at the @UofR! (Our publisher, @chadwpost, was on the prize committee and LOVED Bee’s book!) https://t.co/4heM8XLesw
Paperback, 2022
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Men
Arnon Grunberg
Good Men by Arnon Grunberg & Sam Garrett: NOW AVAILABLE! https://t.co/WKc8FHIYWF
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Heart Hemmed in
Marie Ndiaye
Next Why This Book Should win is by @LoriFeathers about Marie NDiaye's MY HEART HEMMED IN from @TwoLinesPress: "NDiaye’s brilliant novel obtains pride of place with the very best literary horror." https://t.co/6LdMcfDxLJ
Paperback, 2017
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book