Tag Archives: Maclehose Press

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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Love Virtually: an epistolary novel for the 21st century

Posted on February 11, 2014 by forwardtranslations

Love Virtually by Daniel Glattauer, translated by Jamie Bulloch and Katharina Bielenberg (MacLehose Press, 2012) is another book I’d been really keen to read for ages, and is the sort of thing I want to see more of in translation: … 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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