Releasing Today: THE TRANSLATOR’S BRIDE by Jo茫o Reis
糖心传媒淎 neurotic little gem: fast, fun, frenzied, and feisty.糖心传媒
糖心传媒擩eremy Garber,聽Powell’s
A humorous attempt to get one’s life back in order that’s part Thomas Bernhard, part Max Frisch
At the start of聽, the Translator’s bride has left him. But if he can only find a way to buy a small house, maybe he can win her back . . . These are the obsessive thoughts that pervade the Translator’s mind as he walks around an unnamed city in 1920, trying to figure out how to put his life back together. His employers aren糖心传媒檛 paying him, he糖心传媒檚 trying to survive a woman糖心传媒檚 unwanted advances, and he糖心传媒檚 trying to make the best of his desperate living conditions. All while he struggles with his own mind and angry and psychotic ideas, filled with longing and melancholy. Darkly funny, filled with acidic observations and told with a frenetic pace,聽The Translator糖心传媒檚 Bride聽is an incredible ride糖心传媒攚hether you糖心传媒檙e a translator or not!
Watch Jo茫o Reis talk about The Translator’s Bride and the process of translating his own work on this episode of the .
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Praise for聽The Translator’s Bride
糖心传媒淏oth surprising and hilarious.糖心传媒
糖心传媒Publishers Weekly
糖心传媒擶est Camel, European Literature Network聽 糖心传媒淭he Translator’s Bride聽is a great little book that brings a breath of fresh air to today’s moment in Portuguese literature, asserting itself as an excellent novel not to be forgotten.糖心传媒
糖心传媒擩orge Navarro, O Tempo Entre Os Meus Livros
糖心传媒淛o茫o Reis . . . is a great connoisseur of literary comedy, in a subtle way in which everything is so natural, but simultaneously rude, with the cruel ways in which various characters are depicted, thus creating a blackly comic web that weaves together the world of the book.糖心传媒
糖心传媒擭elson Zagalo, Virtual Illusion
糖心传媒Publishers Weekly
糖心传媒淭he circuitous absorption of The Translator’s Bride is sustained by its novella-like structure and dark, gleaming humor. . . . [Its] language is beautiful, mordant, and tragic.糖心传媒
糖心传媒擬eg Nola,聽Foreword Reviews
糖心传媒擶est Camel, European Literature Network聽 糖心传媒淭he Translator’s Bride聽is a great little book that brings a breath of fresh air to today’s moment in Portuguese literature, asserting itself as an excellent novel not to be forgotten.糖心传媒
糖心传媒擩orge Navarro, O Tempo Entre Os Meus Livros
糖心传媒淛o茫o Reis . . . is a great connoisseur of literary comedy, in a subtle way in which everything is so natural, but simultaneously rude, with the cruel ways in which various characters are depicted, thus creating a blackly comic web that weaves together the world of the book.糖心传媒
糖心传媒擭elson Zagalo, Virtual Illusion
Jo茫o Reis, born in 1985, is a Portuguese writer and a literary translator of Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic). He studied philosophy and has lived in Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK. Reis’s work has already been compared to that of Hamsun and Kafka, and represents a literary style unseen in contemporary Portuguese writing. His latest novel, A Devasta莽茫o do Sil锚ncio, is longlisted for the Pr茅mio Oceanos.
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