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Mr B's Ever-expanding List of Fabulous Foreign Fiction (in Translation)
The great thing about excessively long names and titles is that they need little explanation. Just as Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights is an emporium full of reading delights belonging to Mr B, so Mr B's Ever-expanding List of Fantastic Foreign Fiction (in translation) is a list, that will forever be expanding, of fantastic translated foreign fiction. Simple. We'll stick to one title per country to start with - just to please those who love a well-ordered list. (Update - sorry, we couldn't resist adding some extra titles per country...because they're worth it!).
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The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky Russian writing - A heavy-weight contender for the best novel ever written, The Brothers K is the story of a parricide, its buld-up and its consequences - another lighthearted little Dostoevskian offering. It's also a deeply philosophical novel of ideas, with the Legend of the Gr… |
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Against Nature Joris-Karl Huysmans French writing - Revolted by the hypocrisy and materialism and bored with the debauchery of late 19th century Paris, Des Esseintes, a young aristocratic aesthete, shuts himself up in a country house and abandons himself to the satsifaction of his senses, his intellect, and his imagination. … |
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All the Names Jose Saramago Portuguese writing - Senhor Jose is a repressed minor clerk in the tradition of Gogol and Kafka. He works in the central registry filing name cards and has no life. Until, that is, he develops an interest and then an obsession with one of the names on the cards and slowly breaks out from his re… |
£7.99 | |
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Arabian Nights Various/Haddawy Arabian writing - Story telling under pressure - to avert death Shahrazad tells 1001 cliff-hanging tales of magic and monsters, flying carpets, hidden treasures, and forbidden love. Volume 1 of the acclaimed translation by Husain Haddawy. Hardback - Everyman - 1992&nb… |
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Sijie, Dai Chinese/French writing - A beautiful story of first-love and the discovery of reading during the Cultural Revolution; education in spite of Re-education. The story revolves around two young boys exiled to a remote mountainous region of China, a peasant girl, and a secret suitcase of … |
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Bar Flaubert Alexis Stamatis A best-seller in Greece , this novel (translated this year into English), follows the journey of Yannis who, whilst editing his father's autobiography, comes across the manuscript of an aspiring writer which seems to echo his own innermost thoughts. Yannis determines to find out who the write… |
£11.99 | |
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Chess - Stefan Zweig Austrian writing - A novella about chess, obsession, and the mind - As Pascal said: "All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone." The story of the boorish world chess champion who is challenged to a game of chess on a cruise ship by a group of fell… |
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold Gabriel Garcia Marquez Colombian writing - Marquez weaves another gem - this time an almost kafka-esque love and crime story. The book reconstructs, in pseudo-journalistic style, of the murder by of a young man - the supposed violator of a young bride - by her two brothers. An exceptional short novel. Paperback - Penguin… |
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Dancing to Almendra Mayra Montero Having often been asked to recommend a good book set in Cuba by holiday-goers, I jumped on this new book set in Cuba in the late 1950s. It follows Joaquim, a restless young reporter of Cuba's clubs and cabarets as he stumbles across information linking the killing of a hippo at Havana's zoo … |
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Death and the Penguin Andrey Kurkov Ukrainian writing - If the name and the jacket image is not enough to make you want to buy this modern Ukrainian classic immediately, then how about the fact that it does actually feature a Ukrainian penguin! Viktor (a journalist) shares an apartment with Misha (a depressed penguin rescued… |
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Diary of Andrés Fava Julio Cortazar Argentinian writing - Contrary to Mr B's usual and stringent "in-house only" policy on book reviews, check out Pablo Neruda's comments on Cortazar: "Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed. Not to read him is a serious invisible disease which in ti… |
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Doctor Glas Hialmar Soderberg Swedish writing - A sensitive doctor falls in love with a young patient married to a repulsive old hypocrite. Morality, rationality, abortion, euthanasia, murder - which ones are you for and which against...or does it all depend on the context, or perhaps on the outcome, or just what you fancy… |
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