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Life Form – by Amelie Nothomb

Life Form – by Amelie Nothomb

In just 125 pages, Nothomb addressed many different social issues in this partly autobiographical, partly epistolary novel: the gorging of … More

amelie nothomb, bibliophile, France, life form, literary fiction, translated fiction, women in translation

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Took stock of my modest Korean lit collection to get ready for #koreanmarch

I'm slowly making my way thru the list of novels recommended on the blog Contemporary Japanese Literature, and I'm so glad I picked this one to read.

Started this book to get more insights into Japanese literature.

In case you haven't noticed, Globetrotting in The NY Times is a helpful resource for your upcoming books in translation in 2021.

I'm glad I finished off the year with a great romantic love story.

My most anticipated translated fiction in the first half of 2021.

I'm glad Tokyo Ueno Station won the National Book Award for Translated Literature this year. I read it when it first came out in Mar 2019 and really loved it.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is the "creme de la creme", to use her own words :-). It so deserves to be on the many lists of The best 100 books of all time!

Kinshu is an epistolary novel which consists solely of letters exchanged between the estranged and divorced couple who ran into each other ten years after their divorce caused by a double suicide in which the husband was caught.

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