Translated
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2023 category: Translated. Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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The Call of the Tribe
From the Spanish. The celebrated author’s personal take on the evolution of his liberal ideas. (Kirkus)
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Invasion of the Spirit People
From the Spanish. The future belongs to the migrant, the outsider, the foreigner. Long live our alien masters!
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Diary of A Void
From the Japanese. When thirty-four-year-old Ms. Shibata gets a new job in Tokyo to escape sexual harassment at her old one, she finds that, as the only woman at her new workplace, she is expected to do all the menial tasks. One day she announces that she can't clear away her colleagues' dirty cups because she's pregnant and the smell nauseates her. The only thing is...Ms. Shibata is not pregnant. Helped along by towel-stuffed shirts and a diary app on which she can log every stage of her "pregnancy," she feels prepared to play the game for the long haul. Before long, though, the hoax becomes all-absorbing, and the boundary between her lie and her life begins to dissolve.
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Can't I Go Instead
From the Korean. Can't I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th century. When the daughter’s suitor is arrested as a Korean Independence activist, and she is implicated during the investigation, she is quickly forced into marriage to one of her father’s Japanese employees and shipped off to the United States. At the same time, her maidservant is sent in her mistress's place to be a comfort woman to the Japanese Imperial army.
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