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The White Dress Nathalie Léger Review

September 23, 2020 Guest Contributor Comments Off on The White Dress Nathalie Léger Review
The White Dress by Nathalie Léger, translated by Natasha Lehrer, reviewed by Lucy Popescu to accompany the interview for BookBlast® Podcast series, Bridging the Divide. The White Dress is the final part of a trilogy […]
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A Musical Offering Luis Sagasti Review

September 20, 2020 Guest Contributor Comments Off on A Musical Offering Luis Sagasti Review
A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti, translated by Fionn Petch, reviewed by Victor Meadowcroft for BookBlast. A Note-Perfect Ode to Wonder The novel opens with an account of the origins of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg […]
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Fiction

The Blessed Rita Tommy Wieringa Review

September 15, 2020 Guest Contributor Comments Off on The Blessed Rita Tommy Wieringa Review
The Blessed Rita by Tommy Wieringa (longlisted for the International Booker Prize),  translated by Sam Garrett, reviewed by Lucy Popescu to accompany the interview for BookBlast® Podcast series, Bridging the Divide. The Blessed Rita is […]
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On Terrorism Tahar Ben Jelloun Review

September 9, 2020 Guest Contributor Comments Off on On Terrorism Tahar Ben Jelloun Review
BookBlast review of On Terrorism: Conversations with My Daughter to accompany Georgia de Chamberet’s interview Tahar Ben Jelloun in French & in English, voice-over by Issa Naseri, for the BookBlast Podcast series, Bridging the Divide. […]
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The Bell in the Lake Lars Mytting Review

September 1, 2020 Guest Contributor Comments Off on The Bell in the Lake Lars Mytting Review
The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting, translated by Deborah Dawkin, reviewed by Rachel Goldblatt ahead of the interview discussing their collaboration for the BookBlast® Podcast series Bridging the Divide. “And this also”, said […]

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This week, BookBlast spotlights a selection of lit This week, BookBlast spotlights a selection of literature from India translated from Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bengali and Assamese. These works capture the lived experience and heartbeat of the sub-continent, including numerous languages and regional dialects, ranging from the intimate domestic sphere to great epics. 
Our chosen books feature the 2022 International Booker Prize Winner, Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree, which is a powerful meditation on gender, age and family conventions recounted from myriad narrative perspectives, Sakina's Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag, a tense and engrossing family drama set over the course of four days, One Part Woman by Perumal Murugan, a contemporary Indian novel which scrutinises and subverts patriarchal expectations of marriage, the anthology A Fistful of Moonlight which collates contemporary writing from Assam through fourteen distinct stories, and finally Dog Star by Nabarun Bhattacharya, a chilling, dystopian allegory that reimagines a city’s relationship with its abandoned animals. 
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This week, BookBlast highlights modernist prose fr This week, BookBlast highlights modernist prose from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Literature from the German-speaking world navigates a tumultuous century of war, division and reunification. From the symbolism and culture of the Danube region to the tricky realities of life in Berlin, memory, identity and family legacies are explored.
Ranging from the international bestseller Lázár by Nelio Biedermann, a multigenerational family saga with a gothic twist, the confrontational complicity of wartime legacy in Ludwig's Room by Alois Hotschnig, to the indulgent humour of Christian Kracht’s tragicomic, International Booker Prize nominee Eurotrash, these novels scrutinise the search for identity in the shadow of history. 
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