Results for: books tagged ‘Translation’
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Milan Kundera
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, ... More
Slowness: Milan Kundera
Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by ... More
The Eyes: Don Paterson
In The Eyes, Don Paterson has used the work of the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875-1939) to create what might be called a spiritual portrait. Lying somewhere between translation ... More
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting: Milan Kundera
'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme, ... More
My Phantom Husband: Marie Darrieussecq
What would you think if your husband, one day, with no word of explanation or warning, vanished? When would you begin to panic - the first hour, the first night? ... More
The Blue Lantern: Victor Pelevin
The short stories of Victor Pelevin are as individual, reality-warping and endlessly inventive as his novels, moving effortlessly between different genres and moods, bursting with absurd wit and existential satire. ... More
Asleep: Banana Yoshimoto
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, ... More
Amrita: Banana Yoshimoto
A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her twenties through whose eyes ... More
Lizard: Banana Yoshimoto
In these six stories Yoshimoto masterfully explores themes of time, healing and fate, and how her urban, sophisticated, independent young men and women come to terms with them. Her characters ... More
Goodbye Tsugumi: Banana Yoshimoto
An elegiac story of two young cousins coming of age at the Japanese seaside, Goodbye Tsugumi is an enchanting novel from one of Japan's finest writers.Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made ... More
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