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Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)
Contemporary short stories from Ukraine
Claudine’s House by Colette (France)
Colette’s evocative memoir of a rural, animal-laden and loving French childhood
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)
Speculative Russian dystopia from the 1920s
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)
Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia
My 20 Books of Summer 2022
I’ve chosen my 20 books of summer.
I Live a Life Like Yours: A Memoir by Jan Grue (Norway)
A thought-provoking, Barbellion Prize-longlisted memoir on living with disability by Norwegian academic Jan Grue
Story of O by Pauline Réage (a pseudonym for Anne Desclos, #1954club, France)
French filth from 1954
Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan (France, #1954club)
A classic of French literature from 1954
Review of The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom (Netherlands)
Translated from the Dutch by Ina Rilke I’ve not stuck to my reading plans lately, but I will probably come back to that in another post. Instead, I’ve found myself reading a few short international reads, including this one, The Following Story by acclaimed Dutch writer Cees (Cornelis) Nooteboom. Although short, it’s not an easy …
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