In Translation

Reading Ninni Holmqvist, In translation

Buried In Print2014-07-11T17:11:16-04:00

Ninni Holmqvist's The Unit (2006) Trans. Marlaine Delargy (2009) I started reading this one evening when I got home from work and I jumped out of my guilty reader's skin when Mr. B.I.P. came home from work because I had planned to do a dozen different things and, instead, had

Reading Ninni Holmqvist, In translationBuried In Print2014-07-11T17:11:16-04:00

Reading Nu Nu Yi

Buried In Print2017-07-20T17:48:01-04:00

Nu Nu Yi's Smile as They Bow Translated from the Burmese by Alfred Birnbaum and Thi Thi Aye Hyperion Books, 2008 Reading this felt, for me, a little like reading a Katherine Mansfield short story. You know, the way that you slip in and out of the world she creates

Reading Nu Nu YiBuried In Print2017-07-20T17:48:01-04:00

Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005)

Buried In Print2014-07-11T16:50:53-04:00

You know how sometimes you open up a book and start reading and you just luh-huh-huv it? And how when you really weren’t expecting anything to start with, and then you find yourself completely smitten, it just adds fuel to the infatuation? Even though you realize that part of your

Nicolas Dickner’s Nikolski (2005)Buried In Print2014-07-11T16:50:53-04:00