Book reviews
For Two Thousand Years
by Mihail Sebastian translated from the Romanian by Philip Ó Ceallaigh Released: 2017 Reviewed March 27, 2018 “Being persecuted is not just a physical trial. It is one that affects you intellectually. The reality of it slowly deforms you and attacks, above all, your sense of proportion.” So says the anonymous narrator of the powerful novel For Two Thousand Years as he reflects on his time as a university student in 1920s Romania. Continue reading 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 |
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