Women in Translation

What I Read on My Winter Break

'Down the Drain' by Julia Fox, 'A Coin in Nine Hands' by Marguerite Yourcenar and 'Kappa' by Ryunosuke Akutagawa — Review #223

Jan 7 •

'Boulder' by Eva Baltasar

'She holds my hand and I light three cigarettes with my mind.'—Review #214

Aug 13, 2023 •

'Sweet Days of Discipline' by Fleur Jaeggy

'Was I perhaps punishing Frédérique for my love?'—Review #213

Jul 30, 2023 •

'Near to the Wild Heart' by Clarice Lispector

'How can I punish myself enough, how to open myself to the world and to death?'—Review #212

Jul 16, 2023 •

'The Books of Jacob' by Olga Tokarczuk

'And how exactly would a saved world differ from an unsaved world?'—Review #209

May 21, 2023 •

'Tomb of Sand' by Geetanjali Shree

'What do you think, she asked, that relationships, love, only got invented after your generation showed up?'—Review #197

Nov 6, 2022 •

'Nine Moons' by Gabriela Wiener

'Would I be a good mother only if I renounced what, up until now, I had considered life's pleasures, or would motherhood reveal to me other kinds of…

Sep 25, 2022 •

'Strangers I Know' by Claudia Durastanti

'When everything collapses, love remains. But is it a true story?'—Review #193

Sep 11, 2022 •

'Paradais' by Fernanda Melchor

'Polo was left standing on the edge of the lawn, his phone still in his hand and his eyes welling up with tears of humiliating impotence.'—Review #182

Mar 27, 2022 •

'Minor Detail' by Adania Shibli

'Besides, sometimes it's inevitable for the past to be forgotten, especially if the present is no less horrific....'—Review #172

Nov 7, 2021 •

'Tokyo Ueno Station' by Yu Miri

'We were always on edge, dogged by danger and the anxiety that if we had something even for a moment, it could be taken away.'—Review #171

Oct 24, 2021 •

'The Passion According to G.H.' by Clarice Lispector

'My destiny is to search and my destiny is to return empty-handed.'—Review #160

May 23, 2021 •

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