Category: In Translation
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Shannon Fox
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez The novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. It is a rich and brilliant chronicle of life and death, and the tragicomedy of humankind. In the noble, ridiculous, beautiful, and tawdry story of the Buendía family, one sees all of humanity, … Read More One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by Shannon Fox
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery This is a truly beautiful book. I have much to say about it, but perhaps it would be best to let the book speak for itself. Anything I might have to say is insufferably insipid besides the beauty of a passage like this. Do you know what a summer rain is? To start with, pure beauty … Read More The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Blindness
by Shannon Fox
Blindness by Jose Saramago A city is hit by an epidemic of “white blindness” that spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and assaulting women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers—among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a … Read More Blindness
Author Spotlight: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
by Shannon Fox
A few summers back, I wandered into my local Barnes & Noble. I was hoping to interview with a literary agent the next week and wanted to read one of the books she represented. While looking for that one, I stopped the display for Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Angel’s Game.With a title like that, I couldn’t not pick it up and skim the back. … Read More Author Spotlight: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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