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Human Acts- Han Kang translated by Deborah Smith

Posted on July 6, 2017 by mandywight

This novel is an account of the 1980 Gwangju Uprising in South Korea and the massacre and repression which followed. Told from different points of view, the accounts are pieced together like a mosaic and tell us of those who … Continue reading →

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der lange Atem- Nina Jäckle- with Sample translation

Posted on June 17, 2014 by mandywight

This beautiful short novel in German is set in Japan one and a half years after the Fukushima and Tsunami catastrophe, in a province which was devastated by the disaster and where people are slowly trying to put their lives … Continue reading →

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