Tag Archives: Germany

Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens by Michael Kampfmüller

Posted on January 26, 2015 by forwardtranslations

One of the pile of new books I got for Christmas was Michael Kampfmüller’s Die Herrlichkeit des Lebens, inspired by a glowing review in New Books in German a few years back. It sums the book up much better than … Continue reading →

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Round-up of Random Recent Reads

Posted on July 7, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Just a few musings on books I’ve read but been too distracted to review properly: The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker, tr. David Colmer (Vintage). This won the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It’s about a Dutch woman living in Wales … Continue reading →

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Snow White Must Die

Posted on February 12, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Snow White Must Die by Nele Neuhaus, translated from German by Steven T. Murray (Pan Macmillan, 2012), certainly benefits from an eyecatching title and cover as well as “international bestseller status” and inclusion in Richard and Judy’s Book Club. Weirdly, … Continue reading →

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Roads to Berlin – A book of two halves

Posted on February 3, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Dutch author Cees Nootemboom has been travelling to and occasionally living in Berlin since 1963. He was there in 1989 for the fall of the Wall and the events leading up to it, and he travelled back to Germany on … Continue reading →

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Trieste by Daša Drndić, tr. Ellen Elias-Bursać

Posted on October 10, 2013 by forwardtranslations

Trieste by Daša Drndić was first published in Croatian in 2007 and the English translation by Ellen Elias-Bursać was published by MacLehose Press in 2012. It was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and won the Independent Foreign Fiction … Continue reading →

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Posted on June 15, 2013 by forwardtranslations

I had to join a very long waiting list to get this book from the library, having been awaiting it with feverish anticipation even before it came out, so I was thrilled to finally pick up a copy last week. … Continue reading →

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The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke

Posted on April 28, 2013 by forwardtranslations

I have been sadly neglecting the blog for the last little while due to an overload of work, but am slowly emerging and hoping to start getting back on top of things again now. Knowing that I had a two-hour … Continue reading →

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