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Tag: Verso

Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth – a rich, compelling and unsettling read

7th November 20227th November 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Vigdis Hjorth’s novel, Is Mother Dead, translated by Charlotte Barslund, interrogates the cultural expectations placed on ‘woman’ and ‘mother’, and offers a stark and powerful addition to the growing body of ‘motherhood’ texts, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books in translation, Charlotte Barslund, french feminism, Is Mother Dead, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Motherhood, translated fiction, Verso, Verso Books, Verso Fiction, Vigdis Hjorth, Women in Translation

Terminal Boredom: Stories by Izumi Suzuki – the liminal space between possibility and inevitability

2nd September 20212nd September 2021  Jennifer Brough

The first English-language publication of Izumi Suzuki’s darkly humorous dystopias packs a punky, prescient punch.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Fiction, Izumi Suzuki, Japanese literature, Jennifer Brough, short fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, Speculative literature, Surrealism, translated fiction, Translation, Verso, Verso Fiction

Tomorrow They Won’t Dare To Murder Us by Joseph Andras & translated by Simon Leser

28th February 20211st March 2021  Rym Kechacha

Rym Kechacha reviews Joseph Andras’ powerful novel, Tomorrow They Won’t Dare To Murder Us, and considers the impact of colonial violence and fights for independence around the world today.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Algeria, Algerian War of Independence, Britain and Colonialism, colonialism, De Nos Frères Blessés, Fiction, France, Hélier Cisterne, imperialism, Joseph Andras, Novel, novels, Prix Goncourt, Rym Kechacha, Simon Leser, Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us, Verso, Verso Books
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