Friday readings: September 3, 2021

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Friday readings: September 3, 2021
Friday readings: September 3, 2021
Let's discuss the translated books I've read recently.
#30Books30Days
#WiTMonth

Yūko Tsushima, Territory of Light, trans. from Japanese by Geraldine Harcourt (2018 / 1978): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43894695-territory-of-light

Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, trans. from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (2020 / 2017): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52045757-minor-detail

Négar Djavardi, Désoriental, trans. train the French by Tina Kover (2018/2016):
Buddyread with Kim @MiddleOfTheBookMarch: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFUmSRDQPqf56PXNO5Q6lqA

Pilar Quintana, The female dog, trans. from Spanish by Lisa Dillman (2017/2020): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49221592-the-bitch
#ReadingwomenChallenge 2021 / Prompt #6: Book by a South American author in translation

Marta Orriols, Learning to Talk to Plants, trans. from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (2020 / 2018): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53294479-learning-to-talk-to-plants

Yenta Mash, On the Landing, trans. from Yiddish by Ellen Cassedy (2019 / 2018): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38923599-on-the-landing
Buddyread with Heidi @MyReadingLife: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftcdJ7T0cQaz2DIV9abD6w
Shawn's interview with Ellen Cassedy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?vlRdaXFUHXck&t33s

Mia Kankimäki, The Women I Think About at Night, trans. from Finnish by (2020 / 2018): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50892250-the-women-i-think-about-at-night
#nonfiction
Another friend reads with Heidi

Connect with me:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5497508.Britta_B_hler
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brittaboehler/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Britta_Boehler

Besides:
I stole the name "The Second Shelf" from the title of Meg Wolitzer's article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/books/review/on-the -rules-of-literary-fiction-for-men-and-women.html?_r1

I have also written a few books:
New novel – published in Dutch in December 2020:
Housing for the righteous: https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20juiste%20houding-T717.php

The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the-decision
or in the original German: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php/autoren/britta-bohler-a01

Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcosee.nl/boek/De-goede-advocaat-T559.php

as Britta Bolt (with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
– Lonely Graves (2014)
– Lost Lives (2015)
– Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/detail.page?idOyxVSj8qaz8LdzSTmFvOZFbcgK5hHe5EsnGIqAwZPIsQ/c8OEdhES6cW

and for German readers:
– The Office of a Toten (2015)
– The House of Verlorenen Seelen (2016)
– Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/autoren-info/britta-bolt/

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