Translation

The process of converting text from one language to another. Translation of literary works can be highly challenging and is considered a literary pursuit in its own right.

Convenience Store Woman
The Vegetarian
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
The Little Prince
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
The Odyssey
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Anna Karenina
The Stranger
The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
The Master and Margarita
A Man Called Ove
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
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Best Translated Novels
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Ukrainian Literature
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Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

R.F. Kuang
The origins of the word 'anger' were tied closely to physical suffering. 'Anger' was first an 'affliction', as meant by the Old Icelandic angr, and then a 'painful, cruel, narrow' state, as meant by the Old English enge, which in term came from the Latin angor, which meant 'strangling, anguish, distress'. Anger was a chokehold. Anger did not empower you. It sat on your chest; it squeezed your ribs until you felt trapped, suffocated, out of options. Anger simmered, then exploded. Anger was constr ...more
R.F. Kuang, Babel

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