Hey, everyone!
Let’s check out a new category for this year’s Day Awards!
Here are the nominees for “Best Translated Book”:
A Incrível Grace Adams (Amazing Grace Adams) by Fran Littlewood
A story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink–who finally pushes back. A gripping story of joy, grief, stress, worry, love at first sight, parenting, and trauma.
The novel traces a single day in the life of the 45-year-old protagonist, Grace Adams, as she attempts to make sense of her fraught relationships with her estranged 16-year-old daughter, Lotte Kerr, and her husband, Ben Kerr.
El infinito en un junco (Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World) by Irene Vallejo
An enthralling journey through the history of books and libraries in the ancient world and those who have helped preserve their rich literary traditions. In this sweeping tour of the history of books, the wonder of the ancient world comes alive and, along the way, we discover the singular power of the written word.
You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue
You Dreamed of Empires brings Tenochtitlan to life at its height, and reimagines its destiny. The incomparably original Álvaro Enrigue sets afire the moment of conquest and turns it into a moment of revolution, a restitutive, fantastical counterattack, in a novel so electric and so unique that it feels like a dream.
Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop
Paris, 1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson lies on his deathbed, the masterwork to which he dedicated his life still incomplete. As he expires, the last word to escape his lips is a woman’s name: Maram.
Written with sensitivity and narrative flair, David Diop’s Beyond the Door of No Return is a love story like few others. Drawing on the richness and lyricism of Senegal’s oral traditions, Diop has constructed a historical epic of the highest order.
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