Tag: women in translation

• Book Review – My Husband by Maud Ventura

  

  My Husband, the debut novel by Maud Ventura, translated from the original French by Emma Ramadan, is a slow moving, intense and deliciously dark psychological portrait of a marriage and domestic dynamic; a marriage of games and rules, offences and corresponding punishments, of hypothetical drama… all in our narrator’s head alone. The novel opens strong,…

  RestingWillow

  July 8, 2023

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  book review, Emma Ramadan, French authors, Hutchinson Heinneman, literature in translation, Maud Ventura, My Husband, Penguin Randomhouse, women in translation

• Book Review – Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura

  

  Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura is a magical but ultimately profound tale that weaves Japanese culture and tradition, fantasy and Western fairytales with a meditation on the complexities and pressures of adolescence.  Kokoro has been staying home from school, following a traumatic incident, as she weighs up the option of transferring to…

  RestingWillow

  August 14, 2022

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  20 Books of Summer 22, book blog, book blogger, book review, Doubleday Books, Japanese authors, Japanese fiction, literature in translation, Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura, reading challenge, women in translation, women in translation month