Translated
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Translated. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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My Manservant and Me
From the French. The late novelist and AIDS provocateur-activist Guibert (To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life) offers an exquisite narrative of submissive seduction, sadistic subjugation, and psychological manipulation involving an elderly playwright and his young caregiver. (Publishers Weekly)
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Canción
From the Spanish. In Canción, Eduardo Halfon’s eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers’ conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish grandfather’s multifaceted identity. To understand more about the cold, fateful day in January 1967 when his grandfather was abducted by Guatemalan guerillas, Halfon searches his childhood memories. Soon, chance encounters around the world lead to more clues about his grandfather’s captors. As a brutal and complex history emerges against the backdrop of the Guatemalan Civil War, Halfon finds echoes in the stories of a woman he meets in Japan whose grandfather survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
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The Twilight World
From the German. Fictionalized version of the life of Japanese soldier Hiroo Onada, who stayed hidden in the jungles of a Philippine Island for 30 years after the end of WW2 before realizing the conflict had ended. Based on the author's meetings with Onada.
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Strega
From the Swedish. In this elegantly descriptive novel, a group of young girls travel to work at a remote resort hotel in the mountains, where one of them mysteriously disappears.
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Black Foam
From the Arabic. Jabir's picaresque English-language debut introduces enigmatic antihero Dawoud, a habitual liar on the scale of Scheherazade, who weaves deceptions for his survival. (PW)
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The Dispersal
From the Arabic. Tashari, the title of the novel in Arabic, is an Iraqi word for a shot from a hunting rifle, which scatters creatures in all directions. The word tashari expresses the scattering of Iraqis as a people across the globe and the separation from home and loved ones that pursues them. (Publisher)
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Eastbound
From the French. In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons. (Publisher)
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Daodejing
From the Chinese. Ziporyn, a University of Chicago scholar of ancient and medieval Chinese religion and philosophy, presents a challenging and nuanced new translation of the Daodejing. (Publishers Weekly)
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Witches
From the Spanish. Sent to report on the murder of Paloma, a legendary healer who entrusted her cousin Feliciana with all her secrets, Zoe finds her life twisting around Feliciana in a danse macabre as she begins to understand the hidden history of her own experience as woman.
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1794
From the Swedish. Mysteries don't come much rawer than Natt och Dag's gut-wrenching and moving page-turner, his second featuring Stockholm watchman Jean Michael Cardell. (Publishers Weekly)
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