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bigcats-birds-and-books · 1 year ago

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Books of 2023. THAT WE MAY LIVE and NO EDGES from Two Lines Press.

NO EDGES came in my Migrations subscription box earlier this year, and I finally got around to reading it this week! It's a collection of Swahili fiction translated to English. I love little multi-author anthologies because it's the perfect amount of taste testing without committing. My favorites were A Neighbor's Pot by Lusajo Mwaikenda Israel and the excerpt from Nakuruto by Clara Momanyi.

Up next is THAT WE MAY LIVE, which is speculative Chinese fiction in translation! The whole series of books looks really cool, so I'll probably be adding all of these to my library piecemeal.

#books of 2023 #book photography #my photography #books #calico #two lines press #in translation #no edges #that we may live #i will not be tagging authors there are simply Too Many lmao #featuring the nano pen and only truly orange mug i own (the owl is like orange brown lol)#i also read no edges over like three days because the stories are short and the book is short and there's a lot of white space lol #good little morsels #i think i prefer multi author anthologies to one author anthologies because there's more Variety?? like i go for collections for a sampling #--of everything and that's easier with More Authors #one quibble with these i've seen on goodreads is that there's not much Context Up Front #which is true. the stories are presented without comment #so far both of these have been themed by language/region but apparently they've got other themes too #the author and translator blurbs in the back are helpful though!!#unfortunately it doesn't look like i can find a copy of the whole of NAKURUTO (which is a novel) in translation anywhere lolsob #so that's kind of a bummer because i did like what i read!!#very excited for the chinese one because the stories look Weird and Fucked Up and that's My Jam

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