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This Friday in Chicago

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In this edition of "what are we reading this weekend?" we're thrilled to report we'll finally have a chance to dive into Elvira Navarro's disconcerting new novel A WORKING WOMAN. Hailed by Enrique Vila-Matas as the "true avant-gardist of her generation," Navarro is one of Spain's most exciting contemporary writers. Her work has won accolades from Granta & Público and her second novel, THE HAPPY CITY, was awarded the Jaén Fiction Award and the Tormenta Award for best new author. A WORKING WOMAN will hit our shelves on October 10th. • Pray, gentle followers: What are you reading this weekend? • #forthcomingfriday #elviranavarro #aworkingwoman #twolinespress (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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✨ TONIGHT at 7PM ✨ In celebration of Women in Translation month, please join us for a discussion of Marie NDiaye's claustrophobic masterpiece, MY HEART HEMMED IN, with translator Jordan Stump and fellow translator Jennifer Solheim. #witmonth #translatedtuesday #mariendiaye #myhearthemmedin #twolinespress (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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Bay-area Readers: women authors in translation Aura Xilonen, Cornelia Funke, Fida Jiryis, Guadalupe Nettel, Oddny Eir, and Sadaf Siddique—as well as translators Carolina De Robertis and Cristina Rivera Garza—will all be presenting this weekend.

The following happen to be multilingual authors who (with one exception) have chosen to write in English, but we wanted to spread the news anyway: catch Two Lines Press ED Michael Holtmann in conversation with international authors Lesley Nneka Arimah (What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky), Carolina De Robertis (The Gods of Tango), Laleh Khadivi (A Good Country), and Pajtim Statovci (My Cat Yugoslavia).

JUNE 3, 2017 - JUNE 4, 20172017 Bay Area Book Festival

Downtown Berkeley, CA

Join the Center for the Art of Translation at the 2017 Bay Area Book Festival! Numerous international writers and translators will appear.

Living in Two Worlds: Crossing Borders and Identities to Create Home

Sunday, June 4 at  2:00 pm

at The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, 2121 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA

We all cross borders, whether geographical, emotional, or even digital. In our current age, humans are more mobile, and displaced, than they have ever been. These celebrated border-crossers and novelists have spent a great deal of time contemplating a life between the lines. How do we stay grounded in a world that’s constantly in flux?

Featuring Lesley Nneka Arimah, Carolina De Robertis, Laleh Khadivi, and Pajtim Statovci. Moderated by our very own Michael Holtmann.

Purchase tickets here.

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Fans of Magda Szabó & Elena Ferrante will not want to miss A SPARE LIFE! This novel by celebrated Macedonian poet Lidija Dimkovska follows Zlata and Srebra, twins born conjoined at the head. The story follows the twins' coming of age in communist Yugoslavia, a time marked by disappointment and alienation. Keenly observed, poignant, and penetrating, A SPARE LIFE is quickly becoming one of our favorite books of the year. Translated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer. 🇲🇰 #translatedtuesday #lidijadimkovska #twolinespress (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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"One day I stopped working. One day I stayed in bed. I stopped answering the phone, I just stopped. I let myself be dismissed from the high school where I was teaching, received unemployment, sick days, and later, social security. And later, much later, the earth, the trees, the rain. Especially the trees. Their certain endurance in this world, standing, in the same spot, moving and under the influence of everything around them, but they don't move, they never move until someone cuts them down. And even then, it doesn't necessarily end their lives—it's not easy to get rid of a tree. The stump sprouts and soon it's tall and dense again, growing wildly." From Naja Marie Aidt's passionate exploration of depression and rage, BABOON. Translated from the Danish by Denise Newman. 🇩🇰 #translatedtuesday #najamarieaidt #twolinespress (at Unabridged Bookstore)

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This week's #translatedtuesday selection is Marie Ndiaye's lush, fearless SELF-PORTRAIT IN GREEN: "Because it was in front of her house that I saw her each day, for a long time I couldn't distinguish that green presence from her surroundings." Translated from the French by Jordan Stump. 🇫🇷 #mariendiaye #twolinespress (at Unabridged Bookstore)