Posts Tagged with ‘Books:Translation’
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The War: A Memoir – Marguerite Duras
01 May 2019Marguerite Donnadieu was seventeen years old when she moved to France from a small village near Saigon, Vietnam, where…
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One Man’s Justice – Akira Yoshimura
08 Apr 2019The stories we tell about what we know and what we suppose, what we fear and what we love,…
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A Small Circus – Hans Fallada; Small town life in 1929 Germany
02 Apr 2019One of the most memorable and powerful novels I have read in recent years is Hans Fallada‘s Every Man…
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Patagonia — Not Just a Clothing Brand
25 Feb 2019Patagonia Before there was Chile, before there was Argentina, there was Patagonia. Before there was a Patagonia, when in 1520…
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Red Cavalry — Isaac Babel; Russia at War
05 Dec 2018In between wars are other wars. Men fight in them all, whatever is available. Between World War I and…
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War Resistance in Japan, WWII
23 Nov 2018Avoidance of conscription in Japan during WWII was the most heinous of crimes: worse than rape, or murder. Those…
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The Silent Angel — Heinrich Boll
23 Oct 2018In his first novel, The Train Was on Time (1949), Heinrich Böll (1917 – 1985), wrote of soldiers going…
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Stalingrad, a Novel – Theodore Plievier
27 Sep 2018War
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Fleeing War — Walter Kempowski: All for Nothing
18 Sep 2018War stories since The Iliad ( 8th century BCE) have been told to fascinate and celebrate physical courage, mental…
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The Sea and Poison — Shūsaku Endō, confronting War Crimes
31 Jul 2018Pride in our ancestors, and countrymen is common in stories we tell each other, of their hard work, sacrifice…
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Barefoot Gen, a Japanese Graphic Novel in Ten Volumes: Hiroshima
15 Jun 2018THE RECENT SURGE OF INTEREST in graphic novels, with roots in the Underground Comix of the 1960s has not…
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The Crazy Iris — Japanese Writers and the Atom Bomb
17 May 2018Not much is more startling to read than a paragraph beginning “At about noon on the day Hiroshima was bombed…
