World Translations Review: March 2022

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Love Letter in Cuneiform
by Tomás Zmeskal

Translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker

The Last Lover
by Can Xue

Translated from the Chinese by Annelise Finegan Wasmoen

Orthokostá
A Novel
by Thanassis Valtinos

Translated from the Greek by Jane Assimakopoulos and Stavros Deligiorgis; Foreword by Stathis N. Kalyvas

The Influence Peddlers
by Hédi Kaddour

Translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan

Warda
A Novel
by Sonallah Ibrahim

Translated from the Arabic by Hosam Aboul-Ela

The Quick and the Dead
Selected Stories
by Mairtin O Cadhain

Translated from the Irish; Introduction by Louis de Paor

At Twilight They Return
A Novel in Ten Tales
by Zyranna Zateli

Translated from the Greek by David Connolly

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