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Translated Fiction

Book review: The Evenings

Twenty-three-year-old Frits – office worker, daydreamer, teller of inappropriate jokes – finds life absurd and inexplicable. He lives with his parents, who drive him mad. He has terrible, disturbing dreams of death and destruction. Sometimes he talks to a toy rabbit. This is the story of ten evenings in Frits’s life at the end of December, as he drinks, smokes, sees friends, aimlessly wanders the gloomy city streets and tries to make sense of the minutes, hours and days that stretch before him.

2026-08-25T22:22:49+02:00Tags: , , , , , |

VII: ABC TOP 5 2024: Emma V., Maarten and Juno

We are back with our 5(ish) favorite reads (and games) of 2024! We try very hard to keep it to five, but it’s simply not always possible. So, per staff member there may be more or less than five titles, but there can also be an A and a B list, [...]

2026-08-25T22:22:59+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

V: ABC Top 5 2024: Matty, Jilles and Maria S.

We are back with our 5(ish) favorite reads (and games) of 2024! We try very hard to keep it to five, but it’s simply not always possible. So, per staff member there may be more or less than five titles, but there can also be an A and a B list, [...]

2026-08-14T14:56:28+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

III: ABC Top 5 2024: Simone, Sigrid and Tiemen

We are back with our 5(ish) favorite reads (and games) of 2024! We try very hard to keep it to five, but it’s simply not always possible. So, per staff member there may be more or less than five titles, but there can also be an A and a B list, memorable [...]

2026-08-23T22:46:34+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

II: ABC Top 5 2024: Isabelle, Steven and Jonna

We are back with our 5(ish) favorite reads (and games) of 2024! We try very hard to keep it to five, but it’s simply not always possible. So, per staff member there may be more or less than five titles, but there can also be an A and a B list, memorable [...]

2026-08-24T22:23:30+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Book review: Dom Casmurro

Bento Santiago is madly in love with his neighbour, Capitu. He even breaks a promise his devout mother made to God that he become a priest in order to marry her. But, once wed, Bento becomes increasingly convinced that Capitu is having a torrid affair, that his son is not his own, and that his best friend has cuckolded him. What follows is a rich and sardonic narrative, as Bento attempts to discern his son's paternity. Are his suspicions actually based in reality or have his obsessive ruminations given way to deceptive illusions?

2026-08-16T14:17:23+02:00Tags: , , , , , |

Book review: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

The Japanese bestseller: a tale of love, new beginnings, and the comfort that can be found between the pages of a good book. When twenty-five-year-old Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle Satoru's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above his shop. Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, the Morisaki Bookshop is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building, the shop is filled with hundreds of second-hand books. It is Satoru's pride and joy, and he has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife left him five years earlier. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the shop.

2026-08-16T14:09:16+02:00Tags: , , , , , , |

Han Kang wins the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature

by Sophie Congratulations to Han Kang, who is this year's Nobel Prize laureate for the Literature category! We all probably know her from her International Booker Prize winning The Vegetarian, and thankfully since then quite a few of her other works have been translated into English as well. The Nobel Prize [...]

2026-08-15T21:02:03+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , |

The International Booker Prize 2024: and the winner is…

Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from German by Michael Hofmann. Born in East Berlin in 1967, Erpenbeck, in addition to being an award-winning novelist, is also an opera director and playwright who trained as bookbinder (endearing her to us even more). Her novel, published by Granta books, is described by [...]

2026-08-23T22:46:59+02:00Tags: , , , , , , , |
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