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Fiction, Literary Awards, Translation

Faces In the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Title: Faces In The Crowd Author: Valeria Luiselli Translator: Christina MacSweeney Publisher: Coffee House Press, Minneapolis (2014) ISBN: 978 1 56689 354 1 *This review contains spoilers* Subway trains make me think of Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity. Not all the time, obviously. But sometimes a train will be moving in a dark tunnel and a second train will overtake it. They will run on parallel tracks … Continue reading Faces In the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli, translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

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Fiction, Review Copy, Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Translation

Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaki (translated by Thomas Lamarre & Kazuko Y. Behrans)

The description on the back cover of Kawamata Chiaki’s Death Sentences compares the sci-fi/fantasy novel to the 2002 horror film The Ring (or Ringu, if you’re a purist who only acknowledges the original 1998 Japanese version). The film plot centers on **SPOILER ALERT** a video tape that’s haunted by a murdered girl. Anyone who watches the tape dies in seven days. Of course there’s a … Continue reading Death Sentences by Kawamata Chiaki (translated by Thomas Lamarre & Kazuko Y. Behrans)

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