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Yoko Tawada’s strange and compelling THE EMISSARY takes place in a dystopian Japan. Beset by radiation and isolated from the rest of the world, the old have been cursed with eternal life and the young are born sickly, changed. Despite this bleak premise, Tawada’s novel is suffused with a peculiar sweetness and charm. Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani. 🇯🇵 #translatedtuesday #yokotawada #theemissary (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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ICYMI: May’s book club pick is Négar Djavadi’s DISORIENTAL! We’ll meet to discuss this terrific debut on Tuesday, June 5th at 6:30PM. Join us! 🌸💐 • About the book: Disoriental begins innocuously with the narrator, Kimiâ, at a fertility clinic in contemporary Paris. Soon, however, the reader is thrown into the past, encountering Kimiâ's Persian great grandfather and eventually learning of her family's harrowing escape to France during the Iranian Revolution. This ambitious, intricate story weaves a family's history with the history of a country, but it is firmly rooted in one woman's exploration of her place in the world, as a refugee from her homeland and an outcast from her family. Blending the personal and the political, tragedy and humor, the evocative story that unfolds is full of heart and warmth, unearthing sharp truths about diaspora, integration and segregation, sexuality, and how our family histories and political/cultural oppressions shape who we become. Ultimately, Disoriental is about the freedom to live and love in a world that doesn't always grant such freedoms, unless you fight for them. Multigenerational sagas don't always work, but Djavadi is a masterful storyteller. Disoriental doesn't merely work, it absolutely triumphs. • Translated from the French by Tina Kover. 🇮🇷 #translatedtuesday #litsyndicate #négardjavadi #disoriental (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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Carmen Boullosa’s TEXAS: THE GREAT THEFT tells the story of an all-but-forgotten 1859 Mexican invasion of the United States. Told polyphonically through a lively and diverse ensemble of characters, TEXAS offers valuable context for understanding the history of America’s volatile borderlands. Translated from the Spanish by Samantha Schnee. 🇲🇽 Our book club will discuss this remarkable novel on Tuesday, April 3rd at 6:30. Join us! #translatedtuesday #texasthegreattheft #carmenboullosa #litsyndicate (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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“Kate Briggs’s THIS LITTLE ART shares some wonderful qualities with Barthes’s own work – the wit, thoughtfulness, invitation to converse, and especially the attention to the ordinary and every day in the context of meticulously examined theoretical and scholarly questions. This is a highly enjoyable read: informative and stimulating for anyone interested in translation, reading, language, and expression.” – Lydia Davis • Happiest pub day to THIS LITTLE ART! A complex and compelling meditation on the practice of literary translation, THIS LITTLE ART is now available from @fitzcarraldoeditions, a London-based indie publisher that “focuses on ambitious, imaginative, and innovative writing, both in translation and in the English language.” As of today Fitzcarraldo officially has North American distribution! 🎉 Swing by the shop to check out this immaculate book. • #translatedtuesday #katebriggs #thislittleart (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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“No one sounds like Lispector — in English or Portuguese. No one thinks like her. Not only does she seem endowed with more senses than the allotted five, she bends syntax and punctuation to her will. She turns the dictionary upside down, shaking all the words loose from their definitions, sprinkling them back in as she desires (along with a few eyelashes, toast crumbs and dead flies) — and doesn’t the language look better for it?” – Parul Seghal, NYT • We couldn’t agree more. Lispector’s second novel, THE CHANDELIER, is available for the first time in English from @ndpublishing. Translated from the Portuguese by Benjamin Moser and Magdalena Edwards. 🇧🇷 #translatedtuesday #claricelispector #thechandelier (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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Adult fans of THE LITTLE PRINCE will adore Verónica Gerber Bicecci’s EMPTY SET! This remarkable book follows Verónica, an artist who “visualizes almost everything in words.” As she works through the disappearance of her mother, two heartbreaks, and the archives of a revision-obsessed novelist, Verónica engages in a playful reordering of space on the page: Characters are assigned variables, their relationships to one another expressed through diagrams and patterns. Sketches related to Veronica’s preoccupations (including triangles, Venn diagrams, and forests and ice cores as historical archives) are also dispersed throughout the text as Bicceci explores the limitations of language and the bittersweet nature of incremental change. This edition includes a fascinating afterward by translator Christina MacSweeney describing the process by which she brought this idiosyncratic text to English. 🇲🇽 #translatedtuesday #verónicagerberbicecci #emptyset (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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"We are in the midst of a cynical self-reckoning as the not-too-illustrious children of a not-too-illustrious epoch that will consider itself truly fulfilled only when every individual writhing in it—after languishing in one of of the deepest shadows of human history—will finally attain the sad and temporarily self-evident goal: oblivion." • Nothing says "Happy holidays!" like a new collection of stories from Lászlo Krasznahorkai. Translated from the Hungarian by John Batki, Ottilie Mulzet, and George Szirtes. 🇭🇺 #translatedtuesday #laszlokrasznahorkai #theworldgoeson (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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Here in 2017's 11th hour, we're trying to squeeze in a few books we didn't have a chance to read this year. Next up: Congolese novelist, poet, and essayist Alain Mabanckou's BLACK MOSES. Billed as "Oliver Twist in 1970s Africa," Black Moses was recently shortlisted for the 2018 Albertine Prize along with Unabridged favorites COMPASS and NOT ONE DAY. Translated from the French by Helen Stevenson. 🇨🇬 #translatedtuesday #blackmoses #alainmabanckou (at Unabridged Bookstore)