embodies everything Delphine has always secretly admired she is a glittering image of feminine sophistication and spontaneity and she has an uncanny knack of always saying the right thing. ‘Overwhelmed by the huge success of her latest novel, exhausted and suffering from a crippling inability to write, Delphine meets L. Inlands by Elin Willows translated from the Swedish by Duncan J. Through it all, her love for this place and its people deepens and she discovers in her family’s past a mission that will shape her entire future.įramed as a letter to her grandfather and filled with disarming characters in momentous times, I’m Writing You from Tehran is an unforgettable, moving view into an often obscured part of our world.’Ĥ. She finds love, loses her press credentials, marries, and is separated from her husband by erupting global conflict. She is caught up in protests and interrogated by secret police some friends disappear and others may be tracking her movements.

And so it is all the more crushing when the political situation falters. Once she finally starts to learn Persian, she begins to see Iran through her grandfather’s eyes. Minoui settles into daily life – getting to know her devout grandmother for the first time, making friends with local women who help her escape secret dance parties when the morality police arrive, figuring out how to be a journalist in a country that is suspicious of the press and Westerners. In the course of that decade, great change comes to both writer and country, often at the same time. The Communist’s Daughter by Aroa Moreno Durán translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore Stay tuned for the rest of the month’s content, too!ġ.

If you’re taking part in the challenge, I hope you find something here which you can include in your list for the month. To kick off the month then, I wanted to gather together several books in translation which I read in the last couple of years, and all of which I thoroughly enjoyed. I love reading books in translation, and those by women often appeal to me so much. This post marks the beginning of a whole month of applicable reviews, which I have been having so much fun preparing for. This year, I definitely want to actively take part in Women in Translation Month, which runs for the entire month of August. I think this was due largely to the Olympics and Paralympics occurring, and the strange – and often uncomfortable – shifts which I felt I had to make toward a more normal life once all of the restrictions were lifted in England. To my disappointment, I completely forgot to prepare a TBR for Women in Translation Month during 2021.

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