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Twin brothers are taken by their mother to live with their grandmother while the war rages. A beautiful, mostly gentle book about a slow-burning relationship. But they drink together they go on walks together he recites to her fragments of the poetry he swears he taught her at school. He considers her to be unladylike she thinks heвЂ™s old-fashioned. SheвЂ™s 37 and jaded heвЂ™s in his late 60s, a retired widower. Tsukiko Omachi and the man she calls Sensei meet regularly вЂ“ without arrangement вЂ“ at a bar near the train station.

Strange Weather in Tokyo вЂ“ Hiromi Kawakami (tr. An angry, passionate and powerful exploration of a woman on the edge. The book chronicles her increasingly desperate and often violent attempts to reconcile herself with the version of womanhood patriarchal society expects of her.

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She is also a woman full of rage and lust and love and hate. The unnamed narrator of Die, My LoveВ is an immigrant, a wife, a mother of a sixth-month-old son. HanВ explores what fiction is and, in doing so, questions how we fictionalise our own lives.Дie, My Love вЂ“ Ariana Harwicz (tr. In the second half of the book the narrator is revealed to be the Child who is now both the writer writing the novel and a character in the novel. The Child lives in poverty and is abused and neglected. In the first half, is the tale of two twelve-year-old children: Mia, the child with two fathers, and The Child. The Impossible Fairytale вЂ“ Han Yujoo (tr. Told by seven narrators, including the soul of Jeong-dae, each revealsВ the events of the uprising, its brutal suppression and the violence of the state. The story of the aftermath of the student uprising and massacre in Gwangju, South Korea in 1980. Flawed humans who are neither wholly good nor bad. Then EitanвЂ™s wife, senior detective in the Israeli police force, is assigned to the murder case. Etian thinks no oneвЂ™s seen him and leaves, but the following morning the dead manвЂ™s wife, Sirkit, arrives at EtianвЂ™s front door holding EitanвЂ™s wallet. Sondra Silverston)Дoctor Etian Green, driving his SUV along a difficult track at the end of a nineteen-hour shift, hits and kills a man. Despentes is a fierce and unflinching writer. Despentes gives a searing commentary on Western societyвЂ™s views of a range of hot topics: social media, hijabs, the rich, sex workers and a whole lot more. Subutex moves between the houses and apartments of friends and acquaintances before ending up on the streets. When his benefactor and musician friend, Alex Bleach, dies, Vernon is left homeless. Vernon Subutex once ran a legendary record shop in Paris. Vernon Subutex 1 вЂ“ Virginie Despentes (tr. If you click on the title, it will take you to my review of the book. Mine are in alphabetical order because creating a top ten in order of favourites was too difficult. The rules are on the photo above so if you havenвЂ™t already, add yours to the list. To start the month though, IвЂ™m posting my contribution to #100BestWIT. Throughout the month IвЂ™ll be sharing reviews of the books IвЂ™ve been reading by women that have been translated into English. To find out more about it, head to founder MeytalвЂ™s blogВ and follow the #WITMonth and #womenintranslation hashtags on social media. ItвЂ™s the first of August and that means itвЂ™s Women in Translation month.