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I wasn't planning to read Sarah Moss's new book Summerwater at the moment, not least because I have still got tons of reading I want to do for August's Women In Translation month. But after watching her online Edinburgh Book Festival session (free to watch until the end of the month), I just had to download the … Continue reading Book Review: Summerwater by Sarah Moss
I love the idea of 'the north'. I guess the idea of Father Christmas at the North Pole set up that notion of a magical fantasy in the snow from a young age, along with children's classics such as The Snow Queen. More recent fiction includes Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, which was my … Continue reading Book Review: A Woman In The Polar Night by Christiane Ritter, translated by Jane Degras #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation
Why do we read? For pleasure and entertainment of course. To expand our horizons when we can't travel anywhere. And to learn about other lives and experiences. Shadows On The Tundra falls in the second and third of these categories. It is not a 'pleasure and entertainment' book in any way. It is a serious and … Continue reading Book Review: Shadows on the Tundra by Dalia Grinkevičiutė (trans. Delija Valiukenas) #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation
“So, in a curious lurid calm which could not last and yet, it seemed, could not end, the days went by.” ― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet The Wind That Lays Waste is Selva Almada's debut novel and the first of her books to appear in English. It is published by Charco Press and … Continue reading Book Review: The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada #WITMonth #WomenInTranslation
