Lily Meyer

3 works in translation tell tales of standing up to right wrongs

Lily Meyer

Itamar Vieira Junior's Crooked Plow, Miroslav Krleža's On the Edge of Reason, and Maru Ayase's The Forest Brims Over all emerge from acts of rebellion.

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3 works in translation: History and literature intertwined

Lily Meyer

It is easy to act as if fiction and history were separate. But they cannot be completely divided. Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos and Oksana Lutsyshyna's Ivan and Phoebe help readers connect with time past.

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3 new books in translation blend liberation with darkness

Lily Meyer

The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu, The House on Via Gemito, and Cousins together form a tour of human darkness where liberation comes in many forms.

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3 works in translation tell science-driven tales

Lily Meyer

AI may be the topic du jour, but for now only a human can read attentively and sensitively enough to genuinely recreate literature in a new language, as translators have done with these three works.

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'Heart Sutra' is a satire that skewers religious institutions without mocking faith

Lily Meyer

Chinese novelist Yan Lianke treats the deities of China's major religions as quiet, omnipresent participants in the novel's events, which range from slapstick comedy to shocking violence.

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3 books in translation that have received acclaim in their original languages

Lily Meyer

On a Woman's Madness and Forbidden Notebook have been highly lauded in their original languages for decades but, like the more recent Black Foam, inaccessible to English readers — until now.

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3 books in translation that ask a lot — and allow the reader to ask a lot in return

Lily Meyer

Concerning My Daughter, Hugs and Cuddles and Freeway: La Movie do not pretend to be easy reads, yet they are all completely consuming.