Translated
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Translated. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Ada's Room
From the German. Tracks a woman through many reincarnations and across centuries and continents in her clever if meandering latest. (PW)
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Abyss
From the Spanish. An eight-year-old girl takes in a series of troubling events in this luminous and transfixing account of fractured family life from Colombian writer Quintana. (Publishers Weekly)
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On A Woman's Madness
From the Dutch. A classic of queer literature that's as electrifying today as it was when it originally appeared in 1982, On a Woman's Madness tells the story of Noenka, a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing. (Publisher) Set in Suriname, the smallest country in South America.
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Anaximander and the Birth of Science
From the Italian. The bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics illuminates the nature of science through the revolutionary ideas of the Greek philosopher Anaximander Over two millennia ago, the prescient insights of Anaximander paved the way for cosmology, physics, geography, meteorology, and biology, setting in motion a new way of seeing the world. (Publisher)
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The Extraordinary Part
From the French. A graphic novel about interactions with mysterious beings.
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The Absent Moon
From the Portuguese. In a product of a lifetime's reflection, the author frames his devastating mental breakdown and his journey back from it against a family story of murder, dispossession and silence - the long echo of the Holocaust across generations.
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
From the Catalan. Struck and killed by lightening in a village high in the Pyrenees, Domn̈ec is surrounded by the ghosts of 17th-century witches, and so begins this spellbinding novel about the human dramas that unfold against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.
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Spa
From the Swedish. Graphic Novel satire on Spa culture, a dark version of White Lotus social satire.
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Scattered All Over the Earth
From the Japanese. It could be the end of the world as we know it, but Tawada’s vision of the future is intriguing. (Kirkus)
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Pollak's Arm
From the German. This historical novel depicts a few hours and many memories in the life of a Jewish art dealer. (Kirkus)
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