Translated from Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett (Saraband Books, 2021) I’m going to go out on a limb straight away, and declare this one of my…
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Translated from German by Christina Les (Naked Eye Publishing, 2021) Kathrin Schmidt’s You’re Not Dying is a prize-winning best-seller in Germany, where it was first…
Over the Easter week I read a couple of books that had been sent to me as gifts, and so I’m taking a break from…
Translated from Spanish (Chile) by Megan McDowell (Atlantic Books, 2021) In Nervous System, Lina Meruane returns to the obsessions with a failing body that preoccupied…
Translated from French by Sophie Lewis (Les Fugitives, 2021) I have to start this review with a confession: I was a bit nervous about reading…
Translated from French by Tanya Leslie (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2021) Simple Passion is the story of an all-consuming love affair: in it, Ernaux details the way…
Translated from German by Annie Rutherford (V&Q Books, 2021) A funny, feel-good comedy of errors featuring characters ranging from the eccentric to the neurotic, a…
Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Faber & Faber, 2021) Night as it Falls is the debut novel by French-born Bosnian-Montenegrin writer Jakuta Alikavazovic, and…
Translated from French by Jordan Stump (Influx Press, 2021) I’ve been reading and enjoying Marie NDiaye’s work for twenty years, and for me Self-Portrait in…
Translated from Spanish (Cuba) by Christina MacSweeney (Charco Press, 2021) I’m always excited to receive a new book from Charco Press, and they kick off…