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Feb 20, 2024 | 
electricliterature.com | Linnea Axelsson |Balsam Karam |Simone Atangana Bekono |Hanna Johansson
Skip to content Reading Lists Books from across the world to add to your TBR Translated literature is no longer the forgotten, othered cousin of the Anglo-American literary scene. At Electric Literature, we have long been enamored by international frontiers, the global writers who write in their native (or acquired) tongues, and the translators who coax each word into English. This year’s crop of forthcoming translations is bountiful. To cease endless (and pleasurable) reading and...
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Feb 18, 2024 | 
player.fm | Balsam Karam
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Balsam Karam |Saskia Vogel
(Author) (Translator) FORMAT Paperback$16.95$15.76(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden's most exciting new novelists.In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her daughter's name as she wanders the cliffside road where the child once worked. The mother searches and...
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
fitzcarraldoeditions.com | Balsam Karam
The Singularity Balsam Karam Published 17 January 2024French paperback with flaps, 194 pages Subscribe 0
PROLOGUE
¶ Meanwhile elsewhere – just as the light turns green and the cars along a coastline prepare to leave the city towards the half desert and the mountains – more slowly than ever a woman crosses the highway, which, along with the corniche, is all that holds the ocean ever rising at bay. The woman is alone, searching for her child.
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Jan 10, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Balsam Karam |Katya Apekina |Allison Pataki |Muriel Barbery
Eliza Barry Callahan. Catapult, $24 (176p) ISBN 978-1-64622-213-1Callahan debuts with a magnificent stream-of-consciousness narrative portraying a young New York City artist as her hearing deteriorates. The unnamed narrator wakes one August morning to a droning in her right ear that causes everything to sound distorted. After a hearing test, she is diagnosed with sudden deafness and referred to a series of specialists.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Balsam Karam |Katya Apekina |Allison Pataki |Muriel Barbery
Parul Kapur. Univ. of Nebraska, $26.95 (362p) ISBN 978-1-49623-678-4In Kapur’s stunning debut novel, twin sisters Jaya and Kamlesh Malhotra dare to pursue their creative ambitions in 1950s Bombay (present-day Mumbai) despite the threat of ruining their family’s reputation and their chances of securing good marriages.
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Jan 3, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Balsam Karam |Katya Apekina |Allison Pataki |Muriel Barbery
Mark Cecil. Pantheon, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-47116-6Cecil’s boisterous debut functions as both origin story and revisionist portrayal of American folk heroes Paul Bunyan and John Henry. Saddled with debt, Bunyan toils somewhere out west in the mines of Lump Town in what feels like the late 19th century, unearthing the energy source known as Lump.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
publishersweekly.com | Balsam Karam |Katya Apekina |Allison Pataki |Muriel Barbery
Temim Fruchter. Grove, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8021-6128-4Fruchter debuts with a wondrous intergenerational story of queerness and Jewish folklore. Shiva Margolin, 31 and reeling from her father’s recent death, wants to know more about her family, particularly her enigmatic maternal grandmother, Syl, and great-grandmother Mira. Both have long since died, and her mother, Hannah, refuses to talk about them.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
sydsvenskan.se | Balsam Karam
Balsam Karam är författare med kurdisk bakgrund. Häng med i vår kulturbevakning – gå in under ”Mitt konto” och ”Notisinställningar” i appen och aktivera pushnotiserna för kultur. Det sägs att vissa katastrofer liknar blixtar från klara himlar; innan de slår till infinner sig en viss stillsamhet, kanske också lugn, och efteråt vittnar världen om att den inte förstod varifrån katastrofen kom. Jordbävningen, som måndagen den 6 februari drabbade delar av Kurdistan, hör inte till dessa katastrofer.
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Feb 9, 2023 | 
hd.se | Balsam Karam
Balsam Karam är författare med kurdisk bakgrund. Häng med i vår kulturbevakning – gå in under ”Mitt konto” och ”Notisinställningar” i appen och aktivera pushnotiserna för kultur. Det sägs att vissa katastrofer liknar blixtar från klara himlar; innan de slår till infinner sig en viss stillsamhet, kanske också lugn, och efteråt vittnar världen om att den inte förstod varifrån katastrofen kom. Jordbävningen, som måndagen den 6 februari drabbade delar av Kurdistan, hör inte till dessa katastrofer.
