Where Reasons End – written by Yiyun Li ‘The essence of growing up is to play hide-and-seek with one’s mother successfully.’ Reading Li’s 2017 ‘anti-memoir’ Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to...
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Where Reasons End – written by Yiyun Li ‘The essence of growing up is to play hide-and-seek with one’s mother successfully.’ Reading Li’s 2017 ‘anti-memoir’ Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to...
China is the oldest nation on Earth that has never been truly conquered or had its culture destroyed. It offers more to learn than any other country you could ever visit. It is also an increasingly...
Written by Un-su Kim | Translated by Sora Kim-Russell The most important thing to note about The Plotters is that it’s billed as a thriller, but it is actually far more than that. Rather than...
What a year 2018 was! A year of incredible literature in translation, and the year that Books and Bao was born. Our list of Best Translated Books of 2018 barley skated the surface of the incredible...
Through the Water Curtain & other Tales from Around the World Fairy Tales selected and introduced by Cornelia Funke ‘Fairy tales are Time Machines. They have preserved all the fears and hopes of...
Back in summer 2017, I had the pleasure and privilege of travelling through Colombia for two months. Over the past two decades, the nation has steadily increased in popularity as a tourist...
While 2018 has been a tumultuous year in many ways, it has been a glorious one for translated literature – with a mighty new novel by fan-favourite Haruki Murakami and Olga Tokarczuk winning the Man...
Frankenstein written by Junji Ito |Translated by Jocelyne Allen When it comes to adaptation, book-lovers often feel divided. Some welcome film adaptations; others don’t see the point. Some spend...
Written by: Intan Paramaditha | Translated by Stephen J Epstein Most of us know that every country and culture has its folk tales and fairy tales, and most of us know that these often horrific tales...
Written by Kang Kyeong-ae | Translated by Anton Hur Even if The Underground Village were to be underwhelming, it is worth attention for being perhaps the only collection of stories to come out of...
