5/23/2023 0 Comments Witches by brenda lozanoBeyond that, they need nothing to unite them. For these three books - Iraqi poet Faleeha Hassan's memoir War and Me Mexican novelist Brenda Lozano's Witches and Uyghur novelist and social critic Perhat Tursun's The Backstreets - their commonalities are very broad: All three books engage explicitly and intensely with injustice, and all three are terrifically written and translated. But also, I am always wary of treating translation as its own genre: I never want to pretend that books are similar, or related, by virtue only of not having been written in English first.Īll that said, today's books have almost nothing in common. has miles to go in terms of publishing international literature, there's still an abundance of newly translated works to choose from - so linking books by theme or genre can help narrow the focus. I've focused on the surreal and the creepy - and highlighted the role of the translator and the colonial history of the author's country.Īlthough the U.S. When I write roundups of books that have been translated into English, I often concentrate on choosing works that play well together.
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