Travels in Translation: Summer Reading Part 2
July 9, 2013
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)
http://www.europaeditions.com/book.php?Id=243
Pietro Grossi, Enchantment, tr. Howard Curtis (Pushkin)
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