Beauty Is a Wound Apte, Poornima
Booklist,
09/2015, Letnik:
112, Številka:
2
Book Review
Beauty is a wound-and a curse. Arguably nobody knows this better than Dewi Ayu, the larger-than-life anchor of Kurniawan's glorious English-language debut.
In Xilonen's provocative debut, a streamof-consciousness mash-up of a latter-day Oliver Twist and the movie Nacho Libre, tenacious Liborio survives abuse and violence and finds salvation in boxing, ...love, and books.Depestre's richly metaphoric, ribald, fantastical, and haunting novel, set in his Haitian hometown, Jacmel, during the carnival season of 1938, involves a beautiful bride, a villain who metamorphoses into a butterfly, a zombie, hurricanes, class and color divides, and the contrast between vodou and traditional Christianity.Moroccan French author Slimani ushers readers into a veritable crime scene in a Paris apartment, then flashes back to portray a mother of two, her husband, and their highly recommended nanny.
Reading the World Hoffert, Barbara
Library Journal,
09/2015, Letnik:
140, Številka:
15
Trade Publication Article
A woman on a crowded train finds herself sitting next to a man who once scorned her. A smooth operator entertains a struggling writer friend in a seedy bar. A teenager injured by a careening car ...hunts down the driver, a young man angrily recalls his brother's casually dismissed murder on a beach, and a beautiful prostitute rises from the dead. Shamed by an obstreperous uncle, a working wife and mother moves toward vengeance. Economic catastrophe swamps those suddenly unemployed while sparing the complacent rich. What do these widely appealing, urgently intriguing plotlines have in common? They all come from fiction that has been translated into English, and none of that fiction was published by a big commercial press. Jean-Philippe Blondel's The 6:41 to Paris and Fiston Mwanza Mujila's Tram 83 (the title of both book and bar) are being published this fall by New Vessel Press and Deep Vellum, respectively, two promising new names in the translation game. Other Press, perhaps best known for Jan-Philipp Sendker's The Art of Hearing Heartbeats, which has sold 350,000 copies, triumphed this summer with Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation , while literary giant New Directions can be thanked for Eka Kurniawan's brutally steamy, Indonesian-set Beauty Is a Wound .
