“The Memory Police” by Yoko Ogawa [Why This Book Should Win]
Check in daily for new Why This Book Should Win posts covering all thirty-five titles longlisted for the 2020 Best Translated Book Awards.聽 Tony Malone聽is an Australian reviewer of fiction in translation, whose site,聽Tony鈥檚 Reading List, has been providing reviews continuously since 2009. His main focus is on Japanese ...
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“You Should Have Left” by Daniel Kehlmann [Why This Book Should Win]
This entry in the 鈥淲hy This Book Should Win鈥 series is from Jenny Zhao, an undergrad student here at the URochester. You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin (Germany, Pantheon) The premise of You Should Have Left is a familiar one, not all that different ...
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