Anticipated Translated Fiction Fall Reads for Your TBR!
It’s Fall and we read translated fiction all year long. Here are some upcoming releases to keep your eye on.
Books mentioned in this episode.
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement by Anthony Powell
Time of the Flies by Claudia Piñeiro, translated from the Spanish by Francis Riddle
If Only by Vigdis Hjorth, translated from the Norwegian by Charlotte Barslund
The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Suggested on the Stars by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman
Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes
The Plains by Federico Falco, translated from the Spanish by Jennifer Croft
On A Woman’s Madness by Astrid Roemer, translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott
Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories by Cho Nam-Joo, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang
Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from French by Mark Polizzotti
No Place to Bury the Dead by Karina Sainz Borgo, translated from the Spanish by Elizabeth Bryer
Sun City by Tove Jansson, translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal
We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by E. Yaewon
My Tender Matador by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver
The Unworthy by Agustine Bazterrica, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Moses
On the Clock by Claire Baglin, translated from the French by Jordan Stump
The Tokyo Suite by Giovana Madalosso, translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato
The Colony by Annika Norlin, translated from the Swedish by Alice E. Olson
Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (illustrations by Andrea Ucini)
Swallow the Ghost by Eugenie Montague
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