#BookBingoNW2020 - In translation
Here are some suggestions for your Summer Book Bingo NW 2020 category: In translation.
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The Story of A Goat
Translated from Tamil, a goat's life serves as an allegory for the human condition. (Kirkus)
Format: eBook - 2019 First Grove Atlantic paperback edition
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Blood of the Dawn
Translated from Spanish, this is a story of three women in Peru in the 1980s during the rise of the communist Shining Path.
Format: eBook - 2016
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A Corner of the World
Translated from Spanish, modern-day Cuba comes to life in this story of a professor who falls in love with a young writer. (Kirkus)
Format: eBook - 2014
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Slave Old Man: A Novel
Translated from French, the story of an escaped, elderly slave and the hound that is chasing him.
Format: eBook - 2018
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Motherland Hotel
Translated from Turkish, the classic 1973 novel about alienation, obsession, and precipitous decline, nimbly translated by Stark. (Kirkus)
Format: eBook - 2016
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Vaseline Buddha
Translated from Korean, the storyteller starts out telling a story about a robbery he stopped but ends up telling a story about nothing.
Format: eBook - 2016 First edition
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A Spare Life
Translated from Macedonian, it tells the story of twins conjoined at the head in communist Skopje, Yugoslavia, in the mid-1980s.
Format: eBook - 2016
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Hotel Silence
Translated from Icelandic, a middle-aged travels from Iceland to an unnamed, war-torn country with plans of committing suicide. (Kirkus)
Format: eBook - 2018 First Grove Atlantic paperback edition
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Cobalt Blue
Translated from Marathi, a lodger causes fissures in the relationship between a brother and sister when both find themselves drawn to him in this atmospheric novel. (Kirkus)
Format: eBook - 2013
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Seeing Red
Translated from Spanish, a female writer who is losing her sight probes the meaning of language, genre, and the reader's expectations. (Kirkus)"
Format: eBook - 2016
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