Hot News This Week
March 30, 2023
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At last week’s National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony, the NBCC’s inaugural Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize was awarded to Grey Bees by Ukrainian novelist Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk (Deep Vellum Publishing), and City Lights was honored with the 2022 Toni Morrison Achievement Award. Congrats, all!
Read more about the achievements in the New York Times, and look out for next week’s release of Diary of an Invasion (Deep Vellum), a collection of Kurkov’s searing dispatches from the heart of Kyiv.
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| | Abyss
by Pilar Quintana, trans. Lisa Dillman
World Editions • February 2023 • 9781642861228
“Quintana is an award-winning novelist who captures the world of an eight-year-old girl living in ’80s Cali, Columbia with remarkable perception.” — Melanie Fleishman, The Center for Fiction Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY)
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| “How an East German Novelist Electrified Socialist Realism”: Siblings in the New Yorker
East German writer Brigitte Reimann and her novel Siblings, translated by Lucy Jones, are featured in the April 3 issue of the New Yorker. “In a disarmingly direct style, alive with dialogue and detail, Reimann connects the contradictions of the G.D.R. with the legacy of the Third Reich,” writes critic Joanna Biggs in the piece. “Among so many losses—a brother, a future, an ideology—Reimann’s Siblings has somehow survived, an unlikely patch of political, personal, and aesthetic freedom.”
Siblings
by Brigitte Reimann, trans. Lucy Jones
Transit Books • March 2023 • 9781945492662
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| Grandparents and the Ghosts of Forebears in the New York Times Book Review
At the Drop of a Cat was featured in the New York Times Book Review on March 26. The French novelist Élise Fontenaille’s debut picture book—translated by Karin Snelson and Emilie Robert Wong, and “beautifully illustrated” by Violeta Lópiz—is “a young boy’s portrait of his nature-loving immigrant grandparent and their precious time together.” According to a starred review from Kirkus, the “warmhearted and affirming” picture book is “one to pick up.”
And just in time for National Poetry Month, I'm Always So Serious by Karisma Price is an Editors’ Choice pick in the New York Times Book Review. “Price is very much staking her own ground here, on Southern soil blessed and haunted by the ghosts of forebears; her book summons everyone from James Baldwin to Gwendolyn Brooks to Beyoncé,” says editor Gregory Cowles in the March 23 write-up. “I think you’ll like it.” Check out writer Stephanie Burt’s NYTBR review of the collection from the March 19 issue.
At the Drop of a Cat
by Élise Fontenaille, illus. Violeta Lópiz, trans. Karin Snelson and Emilie Robert Wong
Enchanted Lion Books • January 2023 • 9781592703821
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★ “Earthy, assured, and exquisitely rendered . . . Krivak’s resplendent multigenerational family saga expertly braids the horrors of war with the struggles of those waiting for loved ones to return home.” — Booklist
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★ “The brilliant final entry in Wolff’s Discipline Files trilogy is another clever, twisty treat for espionage fans. . . . John le Carré admirers will be hungry for more.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “This remarkable novel . . . add[s] a cosmic twist to the small-town horror trope, LaRocca introduces readers to Henley’s Edge, where evil, both human and supernatural, has taken hold.” — Library Journal
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| | Bunny & Tree
by Balint Zsako
Enchanted Lion Books • May 2023 • 9781592703937
★ “The feel of this narrative is classic, but the presentation makes it new, wondrous even. . . . It will effortlessly gather readers into its embrace.” — Booklist
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★ “An intimate and layered portrait of disabled womanhood.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Descend into a world of magic, misfortune, and mischief in this comics anthology of South American folklore. . . . By turns gripping, haunting, and tender, this collection is a winner.” — Kirkus Reviews
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★ “Phenomenal . . . The art is also a pleasure to follow all on its own, with exquisite linework and detail, especially in the surprises and horrors.” — Kirkus Reviews
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Tell the Rest
by Lucy Jane Bledsoe
Akashic Books • March 2023 • 9781636140797
★ “This satisfyingly nuanced story tackles sexuality and spiritual abuse, offering connection and redemption.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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The tie-in animated short film for Lackadaisy (Iron Circus Comics)—Tracy Butler’s hit, Eisner-nominated webcomic—went live on YouTube yesterday and has already reached one million views.
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