I got sleepy on lunch break and sat in the sun. Everything was quiet and all the cups and bowls around me started to look like Velázquez cups and bowls.
The Roof Rat Review
- Yōko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (trans). Facing the Bridge. New Directions, 2007 (Facing the Bridge (New Directions Paperbook), 2007). The story of Amo was better handled than a lot of writers might have done, but my favorite thing was the riff on Anne Duden.
- Magdalena Tulli, Bill Johnston (trans). Dreams and Stones. Archipelago, 2004 (Sny i kamienie, 1995). Recommended for Schulz and Calvino fans, which unfortunately I'm not quite.
- Imre Kertész, Tim Wilkinson (trans). The Union Jack. Melville House, 2010 (Az angol lobogó, 1991). "The unattainably remote notion of a private life." Just the best.
- Katie Kitamura. A Separation. Riverhead Books, 2017. It's nice to see a display of control and restraint getting so much attention.
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