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Home | Blog |  On Translation
On Translation

Three New October Translations

October 8, 2013
by WLT

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In these new translations from Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, you can visit the publishing houses of fifteenth-century Venice, the early years of Brasília, and twenty-first-century Buenos Aires.

Bound in Venice by Alessandro Marzo Magno

Translated by Gregory Conti 

Bound in Venice 

 

Paradises by Iosi Havilio

Translated by Beth Fowler

Paradises by Iosi Havilio

 

Free City by João Almino

Translated by Rhett McNeil

Free City

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