Kate of Mind

Kate Sherrod blogs in prose! Absolutely partial opinions on films, books, television, comics and games that catch my attention. May be timely and current, may not. Ware spoilers.

Saturday, July 31, 2021

Shokoofeh Azar's THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF THE GREENGAGE TREE (tr. by Anonymous)

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  There's a scene towards the middle of Shokoofeh Azar's surreal Iranian tragedy, The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree , in which...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Best Translated Book Nominees: Ma Jian's CHINA DREAM (Translated by Flora Drew)

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I never could have imagined Billy Pilgrim* as a moderately powerful bureaucrat in 21st Century People's Republic of China, but Ma Jian s...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Best Translated Book Nominees : Sinan Antoon's THE BOOK OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE (translated by Jonathan Wright)

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Bearing the title that it does, The Book of Collateral Damage  cannot be expected to be a lighthearted and cheery read, but let's take a...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Rosemary Sullivan's STALIN'S DAUGHTER: THE EXTRAORDINARY AND TUMULTUOUS LIFE OF SVETLANA ALLELUYEVA

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Some people have unbelievably strange lives, and then there's Svetlana Alleluyeva, aka Svetlana Dzhukashvilli, aka Lana Peters, aka... b...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Best Translated Book Nominees: Burhan Sönmez' LABYRINTH: A NOVEL (Translated by Ummit Hussein)

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I've never been less certain that the people who wrote the jacket copy for a novel read the same book that I did than in the case of Lab...
Friday, May 29, 2020

Hilary Mantel's THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT

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History is always a spoiler for historical fiction, so I knew, as the virtual pages of The Mirror and the Light dwindled, that I was about ...

Best Translated Book Nominees: Donatella Di Pietrantonio's A GIRL RETURNED, Translated by Ann Goldsmith

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I understand it's a fairly common fantasy among children, to imagine (usually when they're angry with their families) that their par...
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