In Translation
Here are some suggestions for your 2024 Book Bingo NW category: In Translation. Book Bingo is our annual adult summer reading program presented in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. GN=Graphic novel.
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Not A River
Fiction. In this potent novella from Argentine writer Almada, the killing of a stingray sets off a series of fateful events along an unnamed South American river. Like a dream, this otherworldly tale lingers in the reader's mind. (Publishers Weekly)
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Confrontations
Fiction. Bekono’s lyrical debut is an exploration of the internal and external conflicts that come with being a young Black girl in the Netherlands. (Booklist)
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The Body by the Sea
Fiction. The wild beauty of coastal Brittany costars with a transplanted cop from Paris in Bannalec’s atmosphere-laden series. (Booklist)
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The Devil of the Provinces
Fiction. Briskly paced, thoughtful, and truly weird: a whodunit that takes on the very idea of blame. (Kirkus)
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Cursed Bunny
Fiction. Chung debuts with a well-crafted and horrifying collection of dark fairy tales, stark revenge fables, and disturbing body horror. Clever plot twists and sparkling prose abound. Chung’s work is captivating and terrifying. (Publishers Weekly)
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You Glow in the Dark
Fiction. Bolivian writer Colanzi makes her English-language debut with a shimmering collection focused on the ruinous consequences of human folly. Taken together, the stories paint an arresting portrait of corruption, industrialization, the power of nature, and supernatural forces. Readers will be captivated. (Publishers Weekly)
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Beyond the Door of No Return
Fiction. In French colonial Senegal, a young, soon-to-be-eminent French botanist becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman sold into slavery who escaped to freedom. With its sumptuous physical descriptions, shades of language, and smooth overlap of truth and invention, this is masterful storytelling. A mesmerizing tale. (Kirkus)
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Kairos
Fiction. Erpenbeck sets the dissolution of a May-December romance against the backdrop of German reunification in her solemn and subtle latest. (Publishers Weekly)
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Standing Heavy
Fiction. A poignant and funny take on Franco-African history and its complexities and problems, interlaced with wry and surprising takes on current consumer culture, largely told through the lives of migrant workers employed to “stand heavy†as retail security guards, who are often overlooked and yet themselves see everything. (International Booker Prize committee)
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Jumpnauts
Fiction. Blending elements of adventure [science fiction] with Chinese history and mythology, Hao follows a group of unlikely heroes as they attempt to avert two looming catastrophes: a war between adversarial superpowers and a botched first contact with benevolent aliens who could facilitate humankind’s next evolutionary step. (Kirkus)
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