Around the World discussion

This will be a haphazard list. I have no concrete plans beyond denting my TR mountain.

Malaysia: Spirits Abroad
India: Cracking India and/or Girls Burn Brighter
Russia/USSR: Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets and War's Unwomanly Face
Greece: The Bakkhai
China/Canada: Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Romania: The Fox Was Ever the Hunter, Why the Child is Cooking in the Polenta, and Cartea Pricoliciului
Egypt: The Open Door and/or The Queue
Estonia: Purge
Jamaica/US: Yabo
North Korea: The Accusation: Forbidden Stories from Inside North Korea
Palestine: Salt Houses
Japan: Tales of Moonlight and Rain, Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo and/or Pachinko
Nigeria: Freshwater
Afghanistan: Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetry
Italy: Artemisia and/or The Iguana

Hesper wrote: "No thanks. This looks like unsolicited spam to me. The second book has only two reviews, one by you and from the author of the first. So no. Please consider yourself blocked.

Mods, please delete t..."

Done Hesper.

Did you enjoy Spirits Abroad? Looks interesting, but mixed reviews. That Romanian vampire book looks fantastic!! I will have to see if there is an English translation.

Rusalka wrote: "Did you enjoy Spirits Abroad? Looks interesting, but mixed reviews. That Romanian vampire book looks fantastic!! I will have to see if there is an English translation."

In my experience, Romanian fiction doesn't see much translation, and especially not if it's comparatively recent.

And I loved Spirits Abroad. I think the reason reviews may be mixed is because it's quite obviously written for a Malaysian audience. There's no hand holding the reader through the slang or cultural intricacies, for instance, and there are a lot of both. Personally, I enjoyed getting dropped right in the middle of all that, especially since most of the stories are top rate, but I can see where it might be disorienting for others. I'll link my review in the other thread.

@Lilisa: Thank you!

Hesper wrote: "In my experience, Romanian fiction doesn't see much translation, and especially not if it's comparatively recent."

Yeah but you never know!
Do you live in Romania? Or just read Romanian? (please don't read just as just. I tried to rewrite that 10 times, and it didn't work. You know what I mean.)

No worries! I'm fluent in Romanian, but I live in the US.

If you do find a translation of it, let me know! I would still be surprised if there was one, but it'd be exciting to see something other than the usual make it to English. The stuff that most frequently gets translated tends to be "serious" literary fiction, and even then the selection is representative of only a tiny portion of the normally prolific Romanian publishing output.

Ah nice. I always thought there must be some great things that weren't being translated. And I will let you know if I find any translations.

Thanks for understanding my intent above, and not my badly garbled sentence :D

Some more possible choices. Will shift them to the first post as they get read.

New Zealand: Tahuri
Iran: Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity

Hesper wrote: "Estonia: Purge

Ooo nice one. Hope you enjoy!

Rusalka wrote: "Ooo nice one. Hope you enjoy!"
I am, athough I had to pause it after Liide's occupation flashbacks. Aiming to finish it this weekend.

Sorry Rusalka - meant to delete my comment and deleted yours instead! :-( the curse of a moderator!

You said something about liking it...I said have to now read Purge and promptly posted the next comment on what I was reading - realized I was in the wrong thread, deleted that comment, which actually was the previous one, ending up deleting your comment still leaving my wrong thread comment, aargh! Saturday morning issues...more coffee please!

Lol! No worries!

I think I said something along the lines that I had to pause and digest a few times in this book.