Hi Everyone, I’d like to recommend three novels in translation for your consideration. Two are recent translations from Spanish—Bad Girls by Argentine writer Camila Sosa Villada and When We Cease to Understand the World by Chilean novelist Benjamín Labatut.
Thank you so much for the recommendations. I picked up Benjamin Labatut's novel last year at a bookstore in Miami. I read the first paragraph and bought it right away. I went next door to the coffee shop and practically read the whole thing in one sitting. Currently reading his latest, "The Maniac", this time focused on a single mathematician, each chapter told by a different one of his contemporaries and their relationship to him.
As long as you bring up classics, I read Yukio Mishima's "The Temple of the Golden Pavillion" a long time ago and often recommend it to others.
Thank you so much for the recommendations. I picked up Benjamin Labatut's novel last year at a bookstore in Miami. I read the first paragraph and bought it right away. I went next door to the coffee shop and practically read the whole thing in one sitting. Currently reading his latest, "The Maniac", this time focused on a single mathematician, each chapter told by a different one of his contemporaries and their relationship to him.
As long as you bring up classics, I read Yukio Mishima's "The Temple of the Golden Pavillion" a long time ago and often recommend it to others.