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Home | Blog |  On Translation
On Translation

Travels in Translation: Summer Reading Part 2

July 9, 2013
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In June we offered a list of twelve summer reads, all translated titles. Today we add two more to the list, both stories of summer published this month.

Phillippe Georget, Summertime and All the Cats Are Bored, tr. Steven Rendall (Europa Editions)

Summertime and All the Cats Are Bored

http://www.europaeditions.com/book.php?Id=243

  

Pietro Grossi,  Enchantment, tr. Howard Curtis (Pushkin)

Enchantment

http://pushkinpress.com/book/enchantment/

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