Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ Bionic Book Worm, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ Meeghan Reads. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan’s blog or leave a comment on her weekly post. I found this on Davida's Page @ The Chocolate Lady.
Unfortunately, Meeghan has not posted anything for a while. If anyone knows what has happened to her, please, let me know.
Unfortunately, Meeghan has not posted anything for a while. If anyone knows what has happened to her, please, let me know.
And here is a list of all the topics for the rest of the year.
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This week’s topic is Translations.
It's often very tempting to go with the same books and authors that I used before because they are my favourites. However, I have tried this time to only use titles I never mentioned before and have started with the oldest ones I reviewed.
As you can see, I have chosen books translated from Russian, Swedish, German, Turkish and Finnish. I am looking forward to seeing what other readers have chosen.
As you can see, I have chosen books translated from Russian, Swedish, German, Turkish and Finnish. I am looking forward to seeing what other readers have chosen.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor "The Adolescent" (RUS: Подросток) - 1875
Fredriksson, Marianne "Simon and The Oaks" (aka Simon's Family) (S: Simon och ekarna) - 1985
Nadolny, Sten "The Discovery of Slowness" (GE: Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit) - 1983
Pamuk, Orhan "A Strangeness in my Mind" (TR: Kafamda Bir Tuhaflık) - 2014
Waltari, Mika "The Secret of the Kingdom" (SF: Valtakunnan salaisuus) - 1959
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Secret of the Kingdom sounds interesting!
ReplyDeleteIt is, Stephen. We read another book by this author (The Egyption) in our book club before and I wanted to read something else by this author. He always has a lot of thoughts about society, Christianity, history.
DeleteNice that you have so many languages represented.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lark. I definitely wanted to have all different languages and could have done a lot more. Since I love to read about many different countries portrayed by authors from there, I do have a lot of translations. Also, there are many, many more books translated into other languages than into English, so that helps. But these are all available in English.
DeleteSimon och ekarna is a great book. Fredriksson is really good.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more, Lisbeth. I really like her. My first one was, of course, Hanna's Daughters. Beautiful.
DeleteI'm a BIG fan of translated works. Its an interesting way to get a different, sometimes VERY different, view on things.
ReplyDeleteThat is probably the reason why I love them so much, as well, Kitten.
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