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May 7, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kelly Zhang |Soman Chainani |Iacopo Bruno |Ben Whitehouse
Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. Chainani works an elaborate sea change akin to Gregory Maguire’s Wicked (1995), though he leaves the waters muddied. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school.
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May 2, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Ruth Kemp |Nora Lester Murad |Kelly Zhang |Hongyu Zhu
Food as a treat, food as a weapon, food that brings us together, and hunger that compounds our isolation . . . The stories collected here are united by the common theme of food or its absence.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Lira Konys |Marina Gudelj |Ruth Kemp |Kelly Zhang
I called it “Shakharbanu’s Curse.” It accompanied me all through my childhood, and when I came of age, it bore witness to my agony of trying to fit in with those around me. A good title determines the fate of a story, and while I would never get tired of scribbling things down, I faltered like a hobbled horse over the title of this tale. I found myself gazing with pity at my story and throwing on it, like a halter, a random phrase that sprang to mind.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Lora Maslenitsyna |Chiara Marchelli |Ruth Kemp |Kelly Zhang
Tradition and modernity are locked in a miserable marriage in Baqytgul Sarmekova’s short story collection To Hell with Poets. The children of this union spend their lives in Kazakhstan’s auls bursting with gossip, lonely apartments in the sprawling capital of Astana, and at busy markets. Sarmekova’s characters attempt to broker a peace with their circumstances but often meet tragic consequences. Occasionally, and perhaps by no act of their own, they encounter brief glimmers of a conceivable future.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
dx.doi.org | Alexandre Goyon |Brandon Scott |Peter Yehl |Kelly Zhang
Download Hi-Res ImageDownload to MS-PowerPointCite This:Anal. Chem. 2024, XXXX, XXX Terms & Conditions Most electronic Supporting Information files are available without a subscription to ACS Web Editions. Such files may be downloaded by article for research use (if there is a public use license linked to the relevant article, that license may permit other uses).
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
bookshop.org | Kelly Zhang
(Author) (Translator) FORMAT Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller Description Granny may be old, but she's certainly not feeble - or idle! She's built a splendid vegetable garden from scratch on the rooftop of her Chengdu apartment building. She collects thrown-away produce and feeds it to her chicks and geese - or composts it for the garden.
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Jan 9, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Kelly Zhang |Rachel Bright |Nadia Shireen |James Dean
Lili and her family, who live in a village by the sea, have finished observing the Lantern Festival, the last day of the Lunar New Year festivities, marked by riddles, food, and, of course, lanterns. Lili is exhausted. Yet the absence of her grandmother Lăolao (perhaps deceased, though this is never explicitly stated) lingers in her mind as she falls asleep.
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Oct 19, 2023 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | J. R. Ramakrishnan |Ruth Kemp |Kelly Zhang |Hongyu Zhu
In Maru Ayase’s The Forest Brims Over, Rui, a woman who is muse for her writer husband’s literary efforts, has enough of being exploited for inspiration, swallows a bowl of seeds, and sprouts into a tree. Instead of seeking intervention, her husband, Tetsuya, places her in an aquaterrarium and begins drafting his next novel based on her transformation. But Rui grows and grows into an overwhelming forest, forcing Tetsuya to confront the realities of his life and literary work.
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Oct 11, 2023 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Denise Phé-Funchal |Ruth Kemp |Kelly Zhang |Hongyu Zhu
For QuiqueWe returned under the usual sun, the one that stuck the tiniest of needles all over my body from sunup until the final seconds before it disappeared behind Grandma’s house. We walked back in silence, bringing up the rear, Mama holding my hand, and I could feel how her tears ran down her cheeks to her neck and then down her arms before reaching our hands.
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Sep 18, 2023 | 
wordswithoutborders.org | Ruth Kemp |Kelly Zhang |Hongyu Zhu |Amit Dutta
Translations of manga from Japanese, and picture books from Japan, China, Taiwan, and Korea have been plentiful in recent years, but middle-grade and young adult fiction is still relatively hard to find in translation from Asian languages; translations from Kazakhstan, Vietnam, and Indonesia are a rare treat indeed.
