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Literature & Fiction

Literary

Les Fugitives

Blue Self-Portrait

Lefebvre, Noémi

Mireille Gansel grew up in the traumatic aftermath of her family losing everything - including their native language - to Nazi Germany. In the 1960s and '70s, she translated poets from East Berlin and Vietnam to help broadcast their defiance to the rest of the world. Winner of a French Voices Award and an English PEN Award, this half memoir, half philosophical treatise is a humanist meditation on the art of translation. Gansel considers estrangement as her price paid for the priviledge of moving between tongues, and muses on how translation becomes an exercise of empathy among those in exile. `In this memoir of a translator's adventures, Mireille Gansel shows us what it means to enter another language through its culture, and to enter the life of another culture through its language. A sensitive and insightful book, which illuminates the difficult, and often underestimated task of translation - and the role of literature in making for a more interconnected and humane world.' - Eva Hoffman, author of 'Lost in Translation: A Life in A New Language'

Translation as Transhumance (English, German, Vietnamese and French Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Gansel, Mireille

Historical

"Eve out of Her Ruins" is a heartbreaking look at the dark corners of the island nation of Mauritius that tourists never see, and a poignant exploration of lives at the margins of society. Published in the UK for the first time, this celebrated novel won the 2006 Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie.

Eve Out of Her Ruins

DEVI, Ananda

Contemporary

Translation as Transhumance

Mireille Gansel

Arts & Literature

Now, Now, Louison

Frémon, Jean

The Governesses

Anne Serre

<p>'My mother and I have been writing her obituary. We have been working on it for several years now. Before we started, she had already begun the project with my older sister. She wants to get it right.' Assembling fragments of past and present Erica Van Horn describes a life laid out in detail, quietly registering the fuzziness of the line between eccentricity and madness. In this mosaic portrait, a singular everywoman emerges, whose immutable rituals exist on a par with an irrepressible anarchy.</p>

We Still Have the Telephone

Erica Van Horn

Chicanes

Schulmann, Clara

Essays & Correspondence

After Nora

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