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Blue Flowers - A Novel by Carola Saavedra; Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Marcos has just been through a divorce and moved into a new apartment. He feels alienated from his ex-wife, from his daughter, from society; everything feels flat and fake to him. He begins to receive letters at his new address from an anonymous troubled woman who signs off as A. and who clearly believe ...Show more
Book of Tokyo A City in Short Fiction by Hinks Jim Matsuie Masashi Hahn Daniel Jin Keita Koji Suzuki Ogawa Yoko
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Book of Tokyo collects 10 stories by some of Japan's most exciting contemporary short story writers. Together, the stories form a kind of literary map of the city's ever-changing districts through its fiction. With works of literary fiction, crime, science fiction, and horror, the anthology provides ...Show more
Canción by Eduardo Halfon; Lisa Dillman (Translator); Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Category: Fiction
From internationally celebrated Eduardo Halfon comes a new installment in his hero's nomadic odyssey as he searches for answers surrounding his grandfather's abduction In Canción, Eduardo Halfon's eponymous wanderer is invited to a Lebanese writers' conference in Japan, where he reflects on his Jewish g ...Show more
Catching Fire - A Translation Diary by Daniel Hahn
Category: Biography | Series: Untranslated Ser.
In Catching Fire, the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another language--what happens when you meet a pun? a double entendre?--are met b ...Show more
Day I Found You by Pedro Chagas Freitas; Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Category: Fiction
The restaurant is crowded and noisy. The man sits by the window, watching the grey sky, bored, as he is every Monday morning. Suddenly he turns and she's there, standing in front of him. Years have passed since he last saw her, since the day he left, without an explanation, without a reason. Yet only no ...Show more
Happiness is a Watermelon on Your Head by Daniel Hahn
Category: Picture Books
A cauliflower hat, a fish bonnet, a few large animals, a flying boar called Melvin, and a whole lot of watermelons come together in this wacky tale told in rhyme To the villagers who watch her going about her day, it is clear that Miss Jolly is irritatingly happy. Her never-ending cheerfulness leaves th ...Show more
LUNATICS LOVERS & POETS TWELVE STORIES AFTER CERVANTES & SHAKESPEARE by HAHN DANIEL (ED)
Category: Fiction
"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, And Other Stories and Hay Festival have selected twelve contemporary international au ...Show more
Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal by Juan José Millás; Juan Luis Arsuaga; Thomas Bunstead (Translator); Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Category: Science
Prehistory is all around us. We just need to know where to look. Juan José Millás has always felt like he doesn't quite fit into human society. Sometimes he wonders if he is even a Homo sapiensat all. Perhaps he is a Neanderthal who somehow survived? So he turns to Juan Luis Arsuaga, one of the world's ...Show more
Mourning by Eduardo Halfon; Lisa Dillman (Translator); Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Category: Health and Wellbeing
"Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller." --Daniel Alarc n, author of Lost City Radio and The King Is Always Above the People "It is not often that one encounters such a mix of personal engagement and literary passion, or pain and tenderness." --Andr s Neuman, author of Traveler of the Century and H ...Show more
Never Did the Fire by Diamela Eltit; Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of an agitator that of anyone living next door. For one old couple, brought together years ago in an underground cell, the revolution has ended in a small apartment, a grinding job caring for the bodies o ...Show more
Occupation by Julián Fuks; Daniel Hahn (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This is one beautiful book.--Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance, Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer's conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father's sic ...Show more
Odyssey: Stories of Journeys From Around Europe by the Aarhus 39 by Daniel Hahn
Category: Classic Fiction
"Odyssey, a volume of twenty-one stories aimed at young adults, offers a variety of takes on the theme of travelling - at times funny and playful, at others dramatic and poignant - covering a wide range of themes relevant to teenagers across Europe such as coming of age, sexuality, migration, identity a ...Show more