I occasionally review novels and short story collections from independent presses over at The Next Best Book Blog, very often books in translation. Many of these books I've discovered while exploring the shelves at an indie bookstore or wandering the tables at a book festival.
If you're looking for something new and interesting to read, I can recommend all of the books below.
If you're looking for something new and interesting to read, I can recommend all of the books below.
Book reviews
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Black Wings
by Sehba Sarwar Publisher: Veliz Books Released: 2019 Reviewed June 28, 2019 An estranged mother and a daughter with a shared family trauma reunite after many years. Living together in the daughter’s house in Houston, they are still unable to talk to each other about deeper issues after so many years apart. So each begins to tell stories to the daughter’s two young children about their lives back home in Pakistan. Through the telling of their stories, the two women begin to understand each other’s pain and find peace. continue reading The Stone Building and Other Places by Aslı Erdoğan Translated from the Turkish by Sevinç Türkkan Publisher: City Lights Books Longlisted for the 2019 PEN Translation Prize Released 2018 Reviewed January 28, 2019 Strawberry Fields by Hilary Plum Publisher: Fence Books Winner of the Fence Modern Prize in Prose Released 2018 Reviewed December 5, 2018 Downdrift by Johanna Drucker Publisher: Three Rooms Press Released 2018 Reviewed July 9, 2018 For Two Thousand Years by Mihail Sebastian translated from the Romanian by Philip Ó Ceallaigh Released 2017 Reviewed March 27, 2018 We by Laura S. Distelheim Publisher: Goldline Press Released 2017 Reviewed December 18, 2017 The Protester Has Been Released by Janet Sarbanes Publisher: C&R Press Released: 2016 Reviewed December 4, 2017 Eve Out of Her Ruins by Ananda Devi Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman Publisher: Deep Vellum Released 2016 Reviewed September 11, 2017 The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud Translated from the French by John Cullen Publisher: Other Press Released 2015 Reviewed June 5, 2017 Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent Publisher: Open Letter Books Released: 2009 Reviewed May 10, 2017 |
1914
by Jean Echenoz Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale Publisher: The New Press Released 2014 Reviewed April 25, 2016 Underground by Antanas Sileika Publisher: Thomas Allen Publishers Released 2011 Reviewed March 2, 2016 Tram 83 Fiston Mwanza Mujila Translated from the French by Roland Glasser Publisher: Deep Vellum Released 2015 Reviewed January 25, 2016 Us Conductors by Sean Michaels Publisher: Tin House Books Released 2014 Reviewed November 24, 2015 New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani Translated from the Italian by Judith Landry Publisher: Melville House Released 2013 Reviewed August 12, 2015 Bessarabian Stamps by Oleg Woolf translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk Publisher: Phoneme Media Released 2015 Reviewed June 24, 2015 I’ll be a Stranger to You by Cara Diaconoff Publisher: Outpost19 Released 2011 Reviewed May 26, 2015 Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun Publisher: Unnamed Press Released 2014 Reviewed November 4, 2014 |
