pickReally interesting novel about an American who gets stranded with the Chukchi people in eastern Russia and learns to love their way of life. #archipelagobooks
BarbaraBB Sounds super interesting 11mo
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pickReally interesting novel about an American who gets stranded with the Chukchi people in eastern Russia and learns to love their way of life. #archipelagobooks
I actually squealed when I got this early birthday order of books from Archipelago publishing. I had emailed that I wasn‘t able to access one of their sales (seemed like a website glitch) but just ordered the books I wanted anyway. They sent a lovely handwritten note with TWO free books. Love smaller book publishers!! #archipelagobooks
Always a good day when you get a subscription shipment from #archipelagobooks. #ReadWide #LiteratureInTranslation #translation #tea
pickBeautifully written. I loved how the narrative jumped between the characters in such a way that sometimes I was a few words in to a paragraph before I realized it had switched. Ørstavik really evoked the eerie loneliness of the far North where she is from and never dropped the thread of suspense. I give the Mom an "epic fail" in the parenting department. #archipelagobooks #ReadWide
My TBR pile happily increased by a package or two from #archipelagobooks today.
Still pondering this one as I set it on the top of my #ArchipelagoBooks "Have Read" pile. Fantastic. And the stack will continue to grow now that I succumbed to their subscription... #ReadWide #ReadAllLanguages
I can't say enough about #archipelagobooks for helping me break out of reading the white english-speaking cis-male canon. Just succumbed to their subscription to get the next 12 books they publish. Very excited. Next up on my TBR list, Wolf Hunt. My first ever read from the Bulgarian.
@GatheringBooks @BarbaraBB here is my set in English- not colorful but very good!
so-soA novel in translation (Portuguese to English) about an agoraphobic woman who watches the political upheaval in Angola through her apartment window.
It was difficult to stay immersed in the narrative but there were some ideas & quotes I liked quite a bit. More than any of that, though, I liked the format of the book itself. It's a squat lil baby, 5.5 x .8 x 6.5", with a rough, matte cover. If ever I write a book, I want it to look just like this.
