Translated books we loved in 2019

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Lost Time: Lectures On Proust In A Soviet Prison Camp

Jozef Czapski

During the Second World War, in the heart of the malevolent Soviet Union, Polish prisoner-of-war Jozef Czapski brought Marcel Proust’s novel _x00C0_ la recherche du temps perdu to life without…

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Territory of Light

Yuko Tsushima, Geraldine Harcourt (trans.)

Territory of Light is the radiant story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her two-year-old daughter.

$22.99

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Seasonal Associate

Heike Geissler

How the brutalities of working life are transformed into exhaustion, shame, and self-doubt: a writer’s account of her experience working in an Amazon fulfillment center.    

$45.99

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Celestial Bodies

Jokha Alharthi, Marilyn Booth (trans.)

Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves.

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Glory and its Litany of Horrors

Fernanda Torres

From Fernanda Torres, the celebrated Brazilian actress and bestselling author of The End, comes a riotous tragicomedy of a famed actor’s path from national sex symbol to cult icon to…

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Letters from Tove

Tove Jansson

A revelation and a gift for all Tove Jansson (and Moomin) fans.

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The Godmother

Hannelore Cayre

With a gallery of traffickers, dealers, police officers and politicians who are more real than life itself, a sharp and amusing gaze on everyday survival in contemporary France, and an…

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The Little Virtues

Natalia Ginzburg

An extraordinary collection of 11 essays by Natalia Ginzburg, one of the most important Italian writers of the twentienth century. Originally published in the 1960s, Ginzburg’s wisdom and poetically resonant…

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Lie With Me

Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald (trans.)

A gorgeous coming-of-age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France.

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