Three Contemporary Novellas: Moss, Brown and Gaitskill
Classic Novellas Week Buddy Read: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton #NovNov
Classic Novellas Week: Catholics by Brian Moore #NovNov #brianmoore100
Two reads for Translation Week: Redonnet and Zweig #NovNov #germanlitmonth
Translation Week Buddy Read: Territory of Light by Yuko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt #NovNov
Translation Week: Winter Flowers by Angélique Villeneuve, translated by Adriana Hunter #NovNov
Translation Week: Hotel Iris by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder #NovNov
Hotel Iris is the story of Mari, a 17-year-old woman who works for her tyrannical mother in a run down hotel by the sea. She meets an older man, a translator of Russian novels, who lives on an island and is rumoured to have murdered his wife. They start a relationship based on dominance and…
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Short Nonfiction Buddy Read: The Story of My Life by Helen Keller #NovNov
Short Nonfiction: Hiroshima by James Hersey #NovNov #NonFicNov
Originally published as a 30,000 word essay in The New Yorker, James Hersey’s Hiroshima had a powerful impact despite the brevity of the work. The first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan in August 1945, decimating the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and killing 100,000 men, woman and children and leaving countless others suffering the…
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