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After a short delay caused by some time-travelling farmyard animals (don’t ask…), it’s time to get this year’s Women in Translation Month proceedings underway here at the si…| Tony's Reading List
While I may have put my chapter-by-chapter project on The Tale of Genji on hold for Women in Translation Month, I was never likely to ignore the Tale completely this month, and the timely arrival of the latest addition to my Genji library is just the book for the occasion. This time around, we’re going […]| Tony's Reading List
Having returned from our travels through time in Japan, we’re looking at some slightly more recent historical fiction in today’s Women in Translation Month choice as we head to Rome a few decades back, to meet a happy family whose life is about to be turned upside down. One dramatic, traumatic night is set to […]| Tony's Reading List
After a quick trip to South Korea, we’re back in Japan today (for the third time this Women in Translation Month) to spend some time with an old friend. There’s little time to relax, though, as we’ll not only be travelling through space, but also through time, with our guide taking us on a journey […]| Tony's Reading List
After a Women in Translation Month visit to Japan in the company of one of the big names in Japanese ‘women’s literature’, it’s time to take another trip to South Korea today, with one of that country’s leading female writers. Known mainly for her short stories, she hasn’t been served as well as she might […]| Tony's Reading List
After our previous Women in Translation Month trip saw us paying an extended visit to 1920s Belgium, today we’re moving to a different country, but staying in that era. It’s another of…| Tony's Reading List
After reviewing just over half of the International Booker Prize longlist, it’s time for a little palate-cleansing interlude, so this week will see me taking a break from that project and loo…| Tony's Reading List
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After starting this year’s Women in Translation Month travels with stops in South Korea and Japan, today sees me heading off to Europe, and hurtling more than a century into the past. We’ll be spending most of our time in an old shop in the company of a couple enjoying a chance reconciliation, but all […]| Tony's Reading List
After my first choice for Women in Translation Month featured a Korean collection of stories, it will come as no surprise that my focus now shifts across the sea to Japan. I expect around half of my #WITMonth reading this year to hail from the Land of the Rising Sun, and that begins today with […]| Tony's Reading List
Back in 2014, Meytal Radzinski started an event that hit a chord with many readers and reviewers, namely Women in Translation Month, and more than a decade on, it’s still one of the highlights of the blogging year. I’ve been along for the ride since the first edition, and this year, like every year, I’ve […]| Tony's Reading List
It’s hard to believe that we’re (more than) seven months into 2025 already, but seeing as it’s time for my July wrap-up post, there’s no denying the fact. After another slightly miserable, rainy month here in Melbourne, I’ve managed to tot up an impressive number of posts, boosted by my continuing project on The Tale […]| Tony's Reading List
Recently, I was planning to try another of the Shūsaku Endō books I bought second-hand last year when in several places online I saw mentions of a new book, one containing work translated into English for the first time. Naturally, I immediately made further enquiries, and I was fortunate enough to be offered a copy […]| Tony's Reading List
While I quite enjoy nipping into local charity shops and picking up any bargains I spot, I’m rather less adept at making the time to actually read them, meaning my TBR pile continues to grow.…| Tony's Reading List
Posts about Genji: Chapter by Chapter written by Tony| Tony's Reading List
Often, when reflecting on a book you’ve just finished, you ask yourself (quietly; otherwise people start looking at you funnily and debating whether or not to call the police) whether it was any go…| Tony's Reading List
After a couple of very big chapters, in which we had a spot of spirit possession and a little politics for good measure, it’s almost a relief to find that today’s section of The Tale of…| Tony's Reading List
I’m always happy to get books I wasn’t expecting in my letter box, especially when they’re by writers whose work I’ve enjoyed before, and that was the case with my latest ar…| Tony's Reading List
Posts about Columbia University Press written by Tony| Tony's Reading List
Over the years, I’ve enjoyed many books from Columbia University Press, and the majority of these have come from their excellent Weatherhead Books on Asia series. This range includes a varie…| Tony's Reading List
In my last post, looking at some of the events in the ‘Sakaki’ chapter of The Tale of Genji, I focused heavily on our hero’s love life, or rather, on certain romantic setbacks. H…| Tony's Reading List
Around six years ago, I was fortunate enough to be sent a copy of Tsering Döndrup’s The Handsome Monk and Other Stories (translated by Christopher Peacock and Lauran Hartley), a collection of…| Tony's Reading List
Not content with scouring the Americas for gems of literary fiction, Charco Press have recently decided to spread their wings a little, adding other strings to their already impressive bow. One of…| Tony's Reading List
Earlier this week, I posted on my first experiences of Nō, or Noh, plays, and as it turns out, today I’m back with more. However, this post takes a slightly different approach, as we look at…| Tony's Reading List
After reading three of Andrés Neuman’s books over the past couple of years (one in Spanish!), and having met him in Melbourne a while back, the Argentinian-Spanish author has definitely becom…| Tony's Reading List
After the huge success of Traveller of the Century, many readers have been waiting anxiously for Andrés Neuman’s next work to appear in English – and I certainly count myself among that…| Tony's Reading List
As I mentioned a while back (and as regular readers would no doubt have already guessed), my main reason for attending the Melbourne Writers Festival for the first time this year was to see the ses…| Tony's Reading List
While most of the books which made it onto the shortlist of this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize are relatively slender works, several of the longlisted titles (not least the bookshe…| Tony's Reading List
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While yesterday’s first step along the road of The Tale of Genji translations looked at a partial version, today’s post focuses on a far more complete text, albeit one that doesn’…| Tony's Reading List
Last year, I managed to achieve another of my reading ambitions, finally finding the time to enjoy the Japanese classic novel The Tale of Genji. It’s a book I’m keen to reread at some …| Tony's Reading List
It’s always nice when a book you’ve been saving for a rainy day proves to be just what you expected, and more besides, and that was the case with my first look at Italian writer Italo C…| Tony's Reading List
Posts about Murasaki Shikibu written by Tony| Tony's Reading List
What with review copies and my ongoing chapter-by-chapter project on The Tale of Genji, it can occasionally be tricky to find time for other books on my shelf, but over the past couple of weeks, I …| Tony's Reading List
Thanks to review copies, the odd friendly gift and a lot of purchases, my private library of translations of and secondary literature on The Tale of Genji has reached sizeable proportions. However…| Tony's Reading List
July is drawing to a close, which (inevitably) means that another Spanish-Language Literature Month is almost at an end. Before we wrap up all things Hispanic here at the blog, though, we have one…| Tony's Reading List
As you may have noticed, I’ve read a lot of tricky books in my time (many this year alone), so why is today’s book, a 150-page first novel, one of the most difficult I’ve ever rea…| Tony's Reading List
I’ve enjoyed several books by Argentinian-Spanish writer Andrés Neuman in the past, even going to the extent of purchasing several of his works in Spanish (some of which, such as How to Trave…| Tony's Reading List
In 2021, during August’s Women in Translation Month, I decided to embark on a project centred upon Murasaki Shikibu’s classic Japanese novel The Tale of Genji. I had read the book befo…| Tony's Reading List
It’s no secret that I have more than a passing interest in Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji, but over the past month or so that interest has grown to obsession proportions. The acq…| Tony's Reading List
Well, the last six days have seen me casting a critical eye over various English-language translations of Murasaki Shikibu’s classic novel The Tale of Genji, and I’ve had a lot of fun c…| Tony's Reading List
It wouldn’t be #JanuaryInJapan without some Genji-related reading, and I’d actually had my choice ready for a number of months now. However, the best-laid plans etc etc, and a recent p…| Tony's Reading List
As is the case for many readers, my choice of books can be made by simple random connections, and after enjoying Tram 83 recently, I remembered that there was another African book on the shelves, o…| Tony's Reading List
Despite recent outings to Thailand and Brazil, Peirene Press are best known for their works of European literature, and today’s choice is another prime example of that, taking us to Spain for…| Tony's Reading List
While it was quite nice to spend a while relaxing in Rome, duty calls, and our next International Booker Prize longlist stop involves slightly more stressful times. We’re heading back to rev…| Tony's Reading List
After all that hard toil in the Brazilian fields, it’s time for a change of pace on our International Booker Prize longlist travels, so let’s head off to Italy for a slightly more relax…| Tony's Reading List
Time for yet another intercontinental flight on our International Booker Prize longlist journey as we continue to rack up the air miles. This time we’re swapping rural Poland for a plantatio…| Tony's Reading List
From cultural musings in the Spanish capital (via Peru), we now head to the Polish countryside, where we’ll be spending a while on the latest leg of our International Booker Prize longlist jo…| Tony's Reading List
Leaving our bereft twin behind in Amsterdam, with only her partner (and a ton of sweaters) for company, we now turn our attention to Peru, and Spain, on the next leg of our International Booker Pri…| Tony's Reading List
After a shaggy-dog story down in South America, we’re off to Europe for the next leg of our International Booker Prize journey, where we’ll be getting involved in a family drama. Relat…| Tony's Reading List
Well, it’s taken a while, but I’m finally ready to embark on reviewing the rest of the International Booker Prize longlist. This will probably be a slow process, given the logistics of…| Tony's Reading List
You may have noticed that I’ve spent the last few weeks with at least half an eye elsewhere, and with very good reason, of course. However, the waiting is finally over, and the judges have l…| Tony's Reading List
As mentioned in my post introducing the Shadow Panel for this year’s International Booker Prize, we don’t have much longer to wait to find out what’s in contention, with the longl…| Tony's Reading List
Well, it’s almost that time of year again, when the good old Booker people (or their five representatives, anyway) put their heads together and come up with a longlist for that highlight of t…| Tony's Reading List
With the announcement of this year’s International Booker Prize longlist just around the corner, my mind is turning towards books that might make the cut, and today’s choice is one I th…| Tony's Reading List
One of many books I’ve enjoyed over the years courtesy of Charco Press (purveyors of the finest literature from South and Central America) was Selva Almada’s taut short novel The Wind t…| Tony's Reading List
