Women in Translation Month Recommendations

[@dunkbiscuit]

Found The Girl With The Leica at my local library. Bonus! Very excited.

[@tnan123]

Several of these sound really good. Thanks for the list!

[@andreawolf8665]

A lovely video! So many great recommendations, thank you!

[@LouiseReader]

Quiet the stack indeed! I hadn't heard of most of them before. What We Owe sounds amazing. I just listened to a sample on audible. Oh yes it's for me! Thanks. It's gone straight to the top of the TBR. Will have to wait til I get another credit later in the month though.

[@jenniferherron4512]

I also love Europa Editions. One of my favorite books is From the Land of the Moon by Milena Agus and translated by Ann Goldstein. I just recently read it again and I loved it more the second time.

[@joanneorrico1761]

Hotel Iris sounds wonderful; I discovered this has been on my GR TBR since 2015😬I still need to read The Housekeeper and the Professor by her as well...Thank you for all the great recommendations. I enjoy your channel very much.

[@InsertLiteraryPunHere]

Yaaaaay! I'm intrigued by Space Invaders. Also how depressing is it to think that we could actually meet in person last year and this year it's like nooope

[@rosearan8788]

I’m so happy you recommended Schweblin. As an Argentinean myself, I love when our authors are praised by booktubers!

[@Georgesmomsu]

I need to read more translated works. So many of these sound great including the Disaster Tourist, Camille in October and Hotel Iris. I recently finished The Prettiest Star, The Mothers and The Keeper of Lost Things (all from your recs). The Prettiest Star ripped my heart out and ground it in the pavement. The other 2 were wonderful as well, but TPS will stay with me for a long time. Stay safe and cool.

[@miaarndt9501]

I just bought Miss Iceland by Audur Ava Olafsdottir (because I LOVED Hotel Silence) and Notes of a Crocodile by Qiu Miaojin for Women in Translation Month and I’m definitely adding a few of your recommendations to my TBR!

[@KendraWinchester]

Love these recs!! 😍 Thanks for sharing them.

[@ThatsSoPoe]

Almond sounds really intriguing! I'm adding that to my TBR. A book I'd recommend for women in translation that is an SFF novella is Monteverde by Lola Robles. It's a really neat exploration of alien life, culture, and language as told through the memories of an interstellar linguist.

[@InkandPaperBlog]

Monteverde sounds amazing. I need to look for that one right away! I hope that you like Almond when you get your hands on it.

[@christopherberry2375]

Hey Russel!! These all sound really good!!! Lost Gurls, Almond too!!! 😜

[@InkandPaperBlog]

Hello sir. Hope all is well for you up north east - I think you would like Almond.

[@christopherberry2375]

Ink and Paper Blog OMG! I just noticed I typed Lost Gurls! Lol I will check them both out! Thank you for the recommendations!!

[@bookinwithdebra]

Great range of books. I've added What We Owe to my wishlist. Sounds interesting. I am currently reading The Braid by Laetitia Colombani - really good read.

[@InkandPaperBlog]

Oh, that one is excellent. I gave that book to a friend of mine just the other month!

[@lone-welf]

i really appreciate this.

[@InkandPaperBlog]

Awe thank you.

[@christinacampbellbooks]

Girls Lost sounds intriguing! Definitely doesn't sound like anything that I've read before :)

[@jacquelinemcmenamin8204]

Best book so far this month House On Endless Waters by Emuna Elon. Translated from Hebrew. Recommended by Britta. I read The Door by Magda Szagbo last #WIT I have Katalin Street Iza’s Ballad on this year’s TBR. 👋☘️📚📖🦋

[@Georgesmomsu]

Jacqueline McMenamin just added House On Endless Waters. It sounds fantastic!

[@apocalypsereading7117]

oo Hotel Iris was such a bad trip for me (though I did really like it just thinking about it brings back those uncomfortable feelings). My fav that I've read by Ogawa was the Diving Pool novella collection, personally for me that was miles better than Revenge, which honestly was a disappointment given how much I admire her writing in those other two. can't wait to get round to The Memory Police!

[@ataliax95]

You should read Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor, which is translated from Spanish 🙂 (she's a Mexican author).

[@InkandPaperBlog]

You are not the first person that has said that to me. I will need to put it on my list asap!

[@ataliax95]

@@InkandPaperBlog definitely! It would be really interesting to see how the story is transmitted to non Mexicans... Believe me, it's worth the time!

[@kimswhims8435]

Sounds like a great selection! I've been trying to read more WIT in 2020 but only managed one a month so far. I'd have to say my top favourite this year is Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Narine Abgaryan, Lisa C. Hayden (Translation)- an Armenian Mountain village fable followed by The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, Adrien Kijek (Translator) - this is another village fable set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, has a Persian storytelling style, magical realism on 'roids. The next one I think I'll read is The wandering : a red shoes adventure by Paramaditha Intan ; translated by Stephen J. Epstein. It's a choose your own adventure novel, I've had it on loan from the library for many a month (thanks to Covid19 closures etc) #WIT

[@427ang]

I think the surname Janeczek is pronounced Ya-ne-tchek, also Tomasz Jedrowski is pronounced Yedrovsky. They are surnames of Polish origin where J=y

[@lyddie465]

i really want to read a whole bunch of short, sweet, japanese slice of life fiction this month.