Hello and welcome back! Today's category is Best Translation. Since I'm not able to read all of these books in their original language, I'm unable to actually speak to how accurate the translation into English is. Instead, when I say "best translation" what I mean is the best work I read that was translated into… Continue reading The 2025 Karissa Reads Books Literary Awards (Best Translation)
Tag: Magda Szabo
What I Read: February 2025
Because I forgot to mention it last month - I've made the switch from Goodreads to StoryGraph. Feel free to find me (I'm Karissareadsbooks) there if you also are a user. Read: The Dearly Beloved - Cara Wall (Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019) Abigail - Magda Szabo (translated from Hungarian by Len Rix) (New York… Continue reading What I Read: February 2025
Book Review: Abigail by Magda Szabo
Abigail - Magda Szabo (New York Review Books, 2020) This book was translated from the Hungarian by Len Rix. I think we can all be guilty sometimes of assuming that people who lived a long time ago (and by extension, books written by and about people who lived a long time ago), aren't going to… Continue reading Book Review: Abigail by Magda Szabo
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