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12-05-2018, 09:00 PM | #61 |
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This is probably something for the P&R group I suspect!
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12-05-2018, 09:25 PM | #62 |
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Probably. Although language is never apolitical. For example, I was fascinated by Issybird's discovering that the book I nominated is only $3 at Kobo India. That discovery fits very nicely with comments made by its author in the introduction, wherein he spoke about the devaluation/erasure of Urdu in India. I think any thread about books in translation will inevitably involve some socio-political commentary for context
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12-06-2018, 12:57 AM | #63 |
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Well, I don't see anything jumping out at me, and my own nomination, Foreigner isn't getting any love, so I'll use my last ticket for The Left Hand of Darkness.
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12-06-2018, 01:13 PM | #64 |
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With my last nomination, I will second Kitchen.
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12-07-2018, 12:24 AM | #65 |
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Since I have two tickets left I will third Kitchen and also third The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By.
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I finally got to this based on your nomination here and have read the title novella (I'll read the shorter second novella in the volume tomorrow). It seems odd to say that a book about grief and despair is charming, but this is. I think it's the youthful voice and the sparse prose, but Yoshimoto doesn't pull her punches for all that.
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Kitchen, Hardboiled & Hard Luck, and The Lake are my five star ratings. The Lake is her most recent translated work, I believe.
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