Translated from Spanish by Robin Myers2024, 202 pages. Original version published by Grupo Editorial Círculo Rojo SL, 2021, 218 pages. Natalia Missidenti is on the train back to Geneva. Reaching for her umbrella, which has slipped to the back of the luggage rack, she finds a box. She looks around: it does not seem to …
Month: February 2024
A Sky the Color of Chaos: M.J. Fièvre
Published by Beating Windward Press, 2014, 178 pages. “My life was a deconstructed text, and I was surrounded by words—their sustaining luxuries and dangers. Words have power; you never know what may come of them. Take this: I want to leave—the rest is a jigsaw of memory taking up space in my head. I want …
Homegoing: Yaa Gyasi
Published by Penguin, 2016, 305 pages. Effia and Esi, two Asante women, born in Ghana—then known as the Gold Coast—are half-sisters but unaware of each other’s existence. They go on to lead very different lives, and the paths they take affect the generations that follow. The book begins in the late 18th century. The British …
Les années: Annie Ernaux
Published by folio, 2008, 254 pages. Published in English as The Years, Seven Stories Press, 2017. Translated from French by Alison L. Strayer. “All the images will disappear. ...“—all the twilight images of the early years, the pools of light from a summer Sunday, images from dreams in which the dead parents come back to …
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