David Cooper's Blog - Posts Tagged "literature-in-translation"

My review begins in New York Journal of Books  and continues on examiner :

"Anglophone readers (especially those who also read Hebrew) will find both this handsome book’s bilingual presentation of Ruebner’s selected poems, and his heart wrenching backstory described by translator Rachel Tzvia Back in her informative introduction and endnotes, compelling reading."

"A fictional and more literary tale of an Egyptian Jewish family’s diminished circumstances after immigrating to Israel is The Sound of Our Steps by Ronit Matalon , a novel published today in Dalya Bilu ’s English translation by Metropolitan Books. In my New York Journal of Books review I praise it as a 'beautifully written and skillfully translated book that rewards rereading.'” -- from my examiner article, Israeli Books: Ronit Matalon's autobiographic novel The Sound of Our Steps