Women in Translation: Favorites!

Let’s chat about my ten favorite translated novels.
#womenintranslationmonth #bookreviews #booktube

Books mentioned (in alphabetical order):
1 Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh, transl. from the Spanish (Argentina) by Sarah Moses (2020 / 2017):   / tender-is-the-flesh  

2 Emunah Elon, House of Endless Waters, transl. from the Hebrew by (2020 / 2016):   / house-on-endless-waters  

3 Nawal El Sadaawi, Women at Point Zero, transl. from the Arabic (Egypt) by Sherif Hetata (2015 / 1975):   / woman-at-point-zero  

4 Ann-Helèn Laestadius, Stolen, transl. from the Swedish by Rachek Wilson-Broyles (2021 / 2021):   / stolen  

5 Eva Mejer, The Bird Cottage, transl. from the Dutch by Antoinette Fawcett (2018 / 2016):
  / bird-cottage  

6 Adania Shibli, Minor Detail, transl. from the Arabic (Palestine) by Elizabeth Jaquette (2021 / 2017):   / minor-detail  

7 Magda Szabó, The Door, transl. from the Hungarian by Len Rix (2005 / 1987):   / 497499.the_door  

8 Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder, transl. from the Spanish (Chile) by Sophie Hughes (2021 / 2018):   / the-remainder  

9 Delphine de Vigan, Based on a True Story, transl. from the French by George Miller (2017 / 2015):   / based-on-a-true-story  

10 Emi Yagi, Diary of a Void, transl. from the Japanese by David Boyd & Lucy North (2022 / 2020):   / diary-of-a-void  


Read along with me!
1. Three classics I want to read in the second half of 2024
July / August: Emilia Pardo Bazán, The House of Ulloa, transl. from the Spanish by Paul O’Prey (1886):   / the-house-of-ulloa  

September / October: George Sand, Indiana, transl. from the French by Sylvia Raphael (2001 / 1832):   / 104260.indiana  

November / December: Mitchitsuna no Haha, The Gossamer Years, transl. from the Japanese by Edward Seidensticker (1989 / 974):   / 186608.the_gossamer_years  

2. Sandy’s 1001 Books Bookclub
January – No book
February - The Princess of Cleves by Madame Lafayette (192 pages)
March - The Well Of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall (448 pages)
April - Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud (192 pages)
May - The Waves by Virginia Woolf (304 pages)
June – Love’s Work by Gillian Rose (170 pages)
July - The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (383 pages)
September - The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen (320 pages)
October - The Real Charlotte by Edith Somerville and Martin Ross (415 pages)
November - Anagrams by Lorrie Moore (240 Pages)
December - Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair (86 pages)

Name of my YouTube channel:
I stole name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...

Find me elsewhere:
website: www.brittaboehler.com (hasn’t been updated in a while, sorry…)
goodreads:   / 5497508.britta_b_hler  
Instagram:   / brittaboehler  
X, formerly twitter:   / britta_boehler  

I also wrote some books:
Fiction:
De juiste houding (2021): https://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/De%20...
available in Dutch

The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2014): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...
also available in Dutch, French, Italian, Greek, Danish, Hebrew and Turkish

Non-fiction (available only in Dutch):
De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...

Crisis in de rechtstaat (2004): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-...

De zwerftocht van een leider (2000): https://www.singeluitgeverijen.nl/de-...

Crime novels under the pen name Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt)
The Posthumus Mysteries:
Lonely Graves (2014)
Lives Lost (2015)
Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/deta...

and for German readers:
Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...