Contemporary books in translation

[Anonymous]

Books in translation written in the past 30 years or so are an area I’ve not explored deeply. I’d love recommendations to broaden my reading.

[Anonymous]

love banana Yoshimoto

Also Manto, and Ismat chughtai if you can find them- if you like Kamila shamsi, they are part of her literary heritage.

good thread- would love some contemporary European fiction, also Latin American that is NOT magical realism.

[Anonymous]

Oh yes I also love Banana Yoshimoto. Moshi Moshi I read recently and that has stayed like a film inside my head.

Also Per Petterson.

[Anonymous]

You might want to explore the website Words without Borders--there's a lot of recommendations there.

[Anonymous]

I liked Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, but a lot of Japanese literature goes over my head because their culture is just so different from ours. I keep trying though.

German contemporary lit:
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Perfume by Patrick Suskind

Scandinavian/Icelandic:
History: A Mess by Sigrún Pálsdattir
Haldor Laxness, particularly Independent People
The Ice Palace and The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
THe Barroy Trilogy by Roy Jacobsen

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:love banana Yoshimoto

Also Manto, and Ismat chughtai if you can find them- if you like Kamila shamsi, they are part of her literary heritage.

good thread- would love some contemporary European fiction, also Latin American that is NOT magical realism.

Symphony in White
I Didn't Talk
The Brothers

[Anonymous]

Out Stealing Horses is great.

I recently read and enjoyed Disoriental, by Negar Djavadi.

If you like noir/hardboiled or historical fiction, I'm reading The King of Warsaw right now, translated from the Polish, and it's good so far.