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Sada Day
Almost Never By Daniel SadaPrice: $16.00 USDTranslations 9781555976095, 344 pages, Paper Our monthly translated book club got off to a smashing start (in our humble opinion) this week with Almost Never...
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And the winner is…
I Hadn’t Understood by Diego de Silva, translated by Antony Shugaar (Europa, 2012) It was a tough (and very close) race for our book club pick for June. Our runner-ups, and keep an eye out because they...
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September Picks
It’s the beginning of the month, and that means voting time here at PTW! We have three hot picks for you as we settle back in to reality after the long days of summer: VOTE HERE How the Soldier Repairs...
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Book Club Pick September
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Sasa Stasinic (Grove/Atlantic) The votes have been tallied and drum roll please…. our official book club pick for September is How the Soldier Repairs the...
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Spooky October Picks
We’re back with some more translated picks, this time with some blood, crime, and good-old fashioned violence in time for Halloween. You can vote by clicking here. Battle Royale by Koushun Takami is...
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First Pick of 2013
Black Flower by Young-Ha Kim, trans. by Charles LaShure (HMH) So, anyone who’s clicked around here may have noticed that hurricane Sandy sort of knocked us down and out for the count… but we’re coming...
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A Very Romantic February Book Pick
We are very excited to revisit Ludmilla Petrushevskaya this February by featuring her new book, There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories, translated...
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Short and Sweet Spring Picks!
So…. we are back from our impromptu early spring break, well-rested and ready to kick some literary butt in April! Starting with two bite-sized books that each pack enough punch (in under 200 pages) to...
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The Days of Abandonment in June
The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante We are delighted to announce that Publishing the World will be reading The Days of Abandonment by the mysterious and pseudonymous Italian author Elena...
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PTW goes YA
Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf A new year, a new book club, and Publishing the World is very excited to be announcing it’s first young adult pick! In February we’ll be kicking off the year...
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PTW goes Multicultural, German-style
We are so happy to be announcing our next book club pick, and first ever from translation giant The Other Press, All Russians Love Birch Trees by Olga Grjasnowa, translated from the German by Eva...
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