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A Book Translated from Another Language: 2021 Reading Challenge

The Archer

By Paolo Coelho

Translated from Portugese by Zoe Perry

A young man seeks wisdom from a retired hunter who explains how the principles of archery can help readers find the courage to take risks and embrace life’s unexpected turns.


The Lying Life of Adults

By Elena Ferrante

Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein

Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.


Stalingrad

By Vasily Grossman

Translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler

Follows the lives of the Shaposhnikov family during the German occupation of Stalingrad, from matriarch Alexandra Vladimirovna, who refuses to leave as the Germans advance, to her daughter Ludmila, unhappily married to a Jewish physicist.


The Island

By Ragnar Jonasson

Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir searches for answers when a weekend trip among friends at an old hunting lodge in the Westfjords is upended by a killing linked to a decade-old case.


Before the Coffee Gets Cold

By Toshikazu Kawagu

Translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot

In four connected tales, lovers and family members take turns sitting in the chair that allows a person to travel back in time for only as long as it takes a single cup of coffee to cool.


The Golden Cage

By Camilla Lackberg

Translated from Swedish by Neil Smith

Discovering that the privileged husband for whom she sacrificed everything has been having an affair, an emotionally and financially devastated woman orchestrates a daring plot for revenge.


The Capital

By Robert Menasse

Translated from the German by Jamie Bulloch

A Greek Cypriot attempts to revamp the European Commission’s image by proclaiming Auschwitz as its birthplace, enmeshing an eccentric cast of characters into the hazards of a fiercely nationalistic union.


The Kingdom

By Jo Nesbo

Translated from Norwegian by Neil Smith

A mechanic from a rural mountain village finds the limits of his family loyalties tested when his entrepreneur brother announces plans to revitalize the community through a hotel project that becomes increasingly overshadowed by greed and dangerous secrets.


The Memory Police

By Yoko Ogawa

Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder

An Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance finds a young novelist hiding her editor from mysterious authorities who would erase all memories of people who once existed.


Adele

Leila Slimani

Translated from the French by Sam Taylor

Adele seems to have a perfect life as a successful journalist living with her surgeon husband and young son, but she is consumed by boredom and a sex addiction that she has to organize her entire day around.


Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead

By Olga Tokarczuk

Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

When her neighbor turns up dead, and then other bodies turn up under strange circumstances, Janine, a recluse in a remote Polish village who prefers the company of animals over humans, inserts herself into the investigation, certain she knows whodunit.

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