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A Sister’s Story by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated by Ann Goldstein [in Shelf Awareness]

23 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Italian, Repost, Translation

Award-winning Italian writer Donatella Di Pietrantonio made her English-language debut with the lauded A Girl Returned, deftly translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (revered for her elegant Elena Ferrante translations). Author and translator return to the characters from their earlier collaboration with A Sister’s Story, another...

Five More to Go: Kim Sagwa’s b, Book, and Me [in The Booklist Reader]

12 Feb, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Japanese, Korean, Lists, Memoir, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

b, Book, and Me by Kim Sagwa and translated by Sunhee Jeong Although this book is set in a coastal suburb outside Seoul, the cycle of neglect by stressed or careless adults can and does happen anywhere. In such an all-too-familiarly indifferent environment, lauded Korean writer...

A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, translated by Ann Goldstein [in Shelf Awareness]

24 Jul, by SIBookDragon in Adult Readers, European, Fiction, Italian, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Translation, Young Adult Readers

The unnamed narrator is 13, raised by two affectionate parents in a comfortable city home where she has her own room. School, swim and dance lessons, a nearby best friend, the sea a short walk away are the life she's known. And then, one August...

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