"[The translator's] work—in passages of soaring beauty and breathtaking sorrow, haunting tragedy and delirious joy—captures the individual tones of the novel’s two generations," writes critic Cory ...
Katrine Øgaard Jensen weaves a poem via a mistranslation of Ursula Andkjær Olsen in this second selection in the 2024 Words Without Borders—Academy of American Poets National Translation Month series.
"Hjorth dares us to keep reading, to hold out, to stick around for what we’re sure will be a great redemption, or at least a spectacular breakdown," writes critic Hannah Weber. People falling in love ...
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