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Fiction, Review Copy, Translation

Memory At Bay by Evelyne Trouillot, tr. Paul Curtis Daw

Title:  Memory At Bay Author:  Evelyne Trouillot Translator:  Paul Curtis Daw Publisher: University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville & London (2015) ISBN:  978 0 8139 3809 7 Extensive reading is not necessary to understand that Haiti has a complicated and troubling history.  The brutal sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue, a nation formed out of the world’s first successful slave revolt, decades of precarious and corrupt governments, a devastating … Continue reading Memory At Bay by Evelyne Trouillot, tr. Paul Curtis Daw

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Fiction, Translation

Detective Story by Imre Kertész (translated from the original Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson)

The Hungarian-Jewish author, Imre Kertész, received the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature.  He’s a survivor of Auschwitz, currently resides in Berlin and is 82 years old.  Detective Story was published in 1972 and at 112 pages can (more correctly) be considered a novella. It’s always interesting picking up a book by a Nobel Prize Laureate…  I’m never sure what to expect. Detective Story takes place … Continue reading Detective Story by Imre Kertész (translated from the original Hungarian by Tim Wilkinson)

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