2.16 Read With Me: Translated Fiction

Welcome back to The Community Library! Because this month’s theme is FICTION IN TRANSLATION, I decided to try and read three translated novels in just one week. Did I succeed? Did I fail miserably? Listen to find out!

This month’s discussion pick is One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. That episode will be out on the 24th of May, just one week away!

Listen to the episode here

Download full transcription of the episode here

On the 31st of May I am releasing a very special bonus episode. The clue is APPLE. Tune in next week for another clue!

Books mentioned

• The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo, translated from Korean by Janet Hong

• If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, translated from Italian by William Weaver

• The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar, translated from Farsi by Adrien Kijek

Links to other things

• Reading Women podcast – Ep. 27 | Women in Translation Month

• BookRiot – 100 Must-Read Classics in Translation

• Scribd

• Paul Fulcher’s review of The Impossible Fairy Tale that explains some of the translations

• My Instagram, Twitter, Blog, and Goodreads

• The Community Library’s Instagram and Goodreads

• Cover artwork is by Ashley Ronning

• Ashley’s Instagram, website, and printing studio website

Featured image is of The Impossible Fairy Tale by Han Yujoo