I am doing something similar this year - trying 24 new countries. It has been tough to find some translated work so Jacks reviews have been nice! Looking forward to hearing more about these.
This would be great as a series as well, if you did like 3-5 new countries per video or something, and then a review of the books of course, I would love to watch that!
Jack, I literally can't thank you enough for saying the names of the translators! In my very first seminar on professional translation, we were told that our "names will be forgotten, written in small in the back, and our work will never really appreciated because we are mere translators", so hearing you say the names gives a little hope that it won't happen!
In German books that have been translated from other languages the name of the translator may not be on the cover, but at least on the main title page inside most of the time :) at least from my experience cataloging library books, where the translators are almost always put into the catalog as well.
@@carinam.9447 That's great! Where I'm from, the names of translators are usually in the general description of books (along with date released, edition, etc.). Only poetry and Shakespeare's plays are distinguished based on the translator.
Well where I'm from actually the translator's name is written along the name of the author and people can chose which translator's work they wanna read, I mean there are usually more than one person translating a book in different publications, don't let them ignore your hard work
I try to remember the translators of books I really like. I love to read books from around the world and really like to dive into several books from a country to learn more about it. One big example for me, Big love to Pevear & Volokhonsky for their amazing Russian classics!
1. Violets - Kyung-Sook Shin (1:00) 2. Fate - Jorge Consiglio (3:32) 3. Salt Crystals - Cristina Bendek (4:22) 4. Loop - Brenda Lozano (5:20) 5. Fish Soup - Margarita Garcia Robayo (6:18) 6. Resistance - Julian Fuks (6:58) 7. The Adventure Of China Iron - Gabriela Cabezon Camara (7:58) 8. Elena Knows - Claudia Pineiro (8:49) 9. The Forgery - Ave Barrera (9:42) 10. Never Did The Fire - Diamela Eltit (10:29) 11. A Musical Offering - Luis Sagasti (11:25) 12. Die, My Love - Ariana Harwicz (12:05) 13. Here Be Icebergs - Katya Adaui (13:05) 14. Death on Gokumon Island - Seishi Yokomizo (13:51)
Perhaps you could also read books translated from less wide spread languages, for example Icelandic, Hebrew or Croatian.... I'd really aprreciate such a video.
If you want to read literature translated from Spanish I recommend Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind), Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Julia Alvarez (In the Time of Butterflies), Jorge Luis Borges (Ficciones). Many of these books are among my all time favourites and I think you would enjoy them!
yes to house of spirits (my fav book!!) and in the time of butterflies. also have to ask for one hundred years of solitude, or even like water for chocolate
a lot of latin america in this book mail, and i love to see it! if you ever do a video on it, please please include some brazilian literature (i highly recommend Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector)
I highly recomend you read anything by Isabel Allende, she¨s a chilean feminist writer. Her stories are just magnificient. I find her books to be more about the story than the ending. My personal favorite is Eva Luna. Beautiful writing beautiful soties and an inspiring writer...
I am now reading my first Allende novel, La casa de los espíritus and I am IN LOVE! I had never thought it would be so good and now I want to read everything by her 😻
Elena Knows is one of my favorite books of the year!!! (And just a little tip, China is pronounced cheena in Spanish!). Also Charco Press specializes in Latin American lit so yes 100% that’s a vid in the making!
Charco Press specifically publishes contemporary Latin American lit which hasn't previously been translated into English! Ariana Harwicz's 3 novels published by them are my personal favourites from their catalogue, they're all fantastic. If you're looking for other Latin American lit I'd highly recommend Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Roberto Bolano
There are so many amazing Argentinian authors!! and you seem to have many books from them so maybe a reading vlog about Argentinian authors would be really interesting. My suggestions are Tender is the flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin, Eartheater and the things we lost in the fire
if you end up making a video about latin american literature, you can’t leave out the posthumous memoirs of bras cubas!! some consider it to be one of the best books ever written, and it’s probably the most iconic brazilian novel ever.
I wrote my thesis on Shin Kyung Sook's works (not Violets though because it wasn't yet translated and it was hard to find copies of her works in Korean) and I'm really excited to hear your opinion on her writing!
@@kinrateia I analyzed the underlying feminist aspects present in two of her novels: The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness and Please Look After Mom. You probably know this but she is not an openly declared feminist writer so I basically focused on those aspects that could be overlooked at first glance. 😊
@@nicolechirilov7603 very cool! :0 Yes, the fact that she isn't vocal about her beliefs really does make analysing her works a more interesting thing. For example, we can pretty much tell from some of her works that some of her heroines have subtle traits in their lifes we would typically associate with wlw heroines (Violets is of course the most outward we have it in English), but it is never said or explored outright (not saying it is necessarily needed because novels are of course not about that) and we never hear her speak on it outside of her novels. Analysing her works, all we have to go off of is literally just her works, and it's such an interesting place to be.
@@kinrateia I totally agree. There is a similar dynamic in The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness/A Lonely room (wlw dynamic) but it is very hard to conclude that romantic feelings are indeed involved in the characters' relationship because everything is very subtle and often masked by fascination and admiration. On another note the feminist aspects of her work do not end with the wlw dynamic.. they are also hidden in her portrayals of the historical events that involved women (in The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness especially since most of the "action" takes place in the 70's when women were forced/had no other choice but to work in factories) and in the identity of women as individuals not just as mothers (as seen in Please Look After Mom) There's not a lot I can say about Violets because I have yet to read it but maybe I'll come back here after I finish it. Thank you so much for your input though.
@@nicolechirilov7603 I really couldn't be happier discussing about this with you. Nobody I know read her but her works mean so much to me!! Thanks so much! I am also glad I was not just seeing this, because The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness totally had something that seemed like a wlw dynamic, and then I found out it was so largely autobiographical and just felt not right about assuming. But then internet had no info about it at all! Shin Kyung-Sook really keeps to herself so you can never know directly. She has really developed and thought-through views on the world on a lot of topics though, as I particularly noticed in the Court Dancer, so she probably has something on her mind, just doesn't say it. And - yes, as a history student, I too really enjoy the way she shows as women in history. Sometimes the most feminist approach about talking about them is just being honest and attentive, and she is. It is upsetting how rarely I see this, but in her books women feel more real rather than fictional characters, if that makes sense.
I've never been more proud of being from Argentina and Latin América 😭❤️I love you so much for reading translated fiction bc I get to know more books from Asia for example and even from my own continent and my own country ❤️❤️❤️❤️thank you It's like traveling not just throught space but also in time ✨ Also I'm excited for you to learn about the dictatorship from 1976 in Argentina. It's one of THE historical tragedies from our country, along with the war for the Islas Malvinas (or as the uk wants to call them The Faulklands(?) We still call them Malvinas and we kinda refuse to say that uk won. We know it, but in our hearts and maps in schools The Malvinas are still from Argentina -in our hearts, you know?)
I have to be so careful when I watch your videos, cause after every single one I have the strongest urge to go buy more books and spend the rest of the day just reading. Your booklover energy is dangerous. 😂
I love that you'll be reading argentinian literature ❤ btw, some context on The Adventures of China Iron, there's a classic book in Argentina called Martin Fierro and it's about the life and adventures of a gaucho, his partner "la china" is a character that has barely any presence in it, and that book is the author imagining her journey. I also recommend "Eartheater" by Dolores Reyes, it's a magical realism book about a girl who eats soil and gets visions about murdered women.
YAAAAS finally it looks like you will be reading South American / Latin American literature!!!! I even sent you a book from Mario Vargas Llosa - Bad Girl (I know you still have it at your London house). Please do a video reading Latin American literature!! PORFAVORRRRRR! 😍🤩💃
Hey Jack! I thought this would probably put a smile on your face: In Greece, where translated fiction is all over the place, the name of the translator is always on the cover. When I first heard you say: “I’m happy that the name of the translator is on the cover”, I was like ok apparently sometimes publishers don’t put the name on the cover? Weird!
I’m sure this isn’t the first time it’s been said, but thank you for highlighting the translators on these books. A translator can help introduce you to an exciting new voice or ruin a good story for you.
Not translated but definitely helps to see the perspective of another country from a native's eyes: I will always write back by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda. A joint memoir of an American girl and a Zimbabwean boy who meet through a penpal scheme and it changes both their lives. I think you'll really enjoy it inspired by your recent united world schools visit, I devoured 3/4 of it in one sitting and if i was the type to cry at books I would have been sobbing
I'm always so happy to see booktubers reading translated books!! I would hugely recommend the Chinese series 'The Three-Body Problem' by Cixin Liu which is a combination of historical fiction and sci-fi, which both aren't my favourite genres usually but this series is so fascinating and I would love to see your review of it! Also we studied a Vietnamese text 'Paradise of the Blind' by Duong Thu Huong in school, which is 1. translated and 2. banned in some countries for political reasons and it's really touching as well, I think you'd enjoy it a lot😌😌
I would like to recommend some more books that weren't originally published in English: War and turpentine by Belgian author Stefan Hertmans. The author tells about the life of his grandfather. It's really beautiful I'm currently reading The books of Jacob by Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. I haven't completely finished, but i'm close. It's about Jacob Frank, a false Messiah in the 18th century. It's long and weird and the beginning is hard to get through but it's completely worth it. There is no English translation of this book, but it's originally in French and i remember you mentioning that you were learning French, so if you ever feel like reading a novel in French, i highly recommend Les jardins de Zagarand by Éric de Kermel. It's an exploration of another way of life in harmony with nature and with each other. It's beautiful and my favorite book of all time!
jack, i’m begging you to read “posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas” by Machado de Assis, the greatest writer of brazilian literature!! I genuinely think you’d be obsessed with his writing style!!
Charco specializes in South American literature. Fun fact, Charco means puddle in Spanish, which is how the Atlantic Ocean is sometimes colloquially called.
After hearing about Loop, if you're looking for another retelling of the Odyssey I recommend Margaret Atwood's the Penelopiad. I'm currently writing an essay about it for school where I'm comparing it to Circe by Madeline Miller.
you said " I've been all over the place" I thought you meant mentally, I was like "me too" never mind tho lmao😭😭 And definitely would love book vid focusing on south/Central American books!!! I wanted to get more into those translated works as well!
Excited you're going to read some Daniel Hahn translations! He actually did a blog series about his process of translating Never Did The Fire, which has now been released as a book called Catching Fire: A Translation Diary.
Charco Press publish South American authors. I ❤️ them & think you can close your eyes & point at their catalogue & never be disappointed( unless it is written in Spanish, which i can't read☺️)I love 'Die my love ' & 'Elena knows. ' Next on my Charco TBR is 'Bricklayers' by Selva Almada & ' Loop.' They also have some books that actual translators have done like Sophie Hughes who translated Paradais & Jennifer Croft. Looking forward to getting to those. I love them & would think I was in heaven to get a box like that 😍.
So excited for you to enter this whole new world that is latin-american literature! And I must say, as a Brazilian, you have to look more into our literature; Clarice Lispector, José Saramago, Machado de Assis... there's also one book that I highly recommend that is called "Pacientes que curam" by Julia Rocha.
I love your videos and also I would love to suggest a book. It's called 'The rage that remains' by Mareike Fallwickl. She is an austrian author and feminist. The book was written during the pandemic and focuses on what happens to a family if the mother, the primary care giver, isn't there anymore. I think this would be right up your alley. All the best!
Also your videos have inspired me to read books (like hurricane season) in both English and Spanish to learn more about translation and the nuances of it.
i would be so happy if you read and reviewed some Russian books! there are so many fantastic Russian-speaking authors, both modern and already classic ones
OMG I can't believe this video. I work in the argentinian publishing house that edited and published Fate by Jorge Consiglio and A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti. I'm so hyped to see that Charco press sent you the translated copies. I can't wait to see what you think of them! ^.^
Oh my god if u enjoy Kyung-sook Shin read "Please Look After Mother" by her! It's a hugely popular book by her about a mother that goes missing and as her family is looking for her they realise they never really knew the woman they called mom, starting off with how none of them had a recent picture of her for the missing persons poster. You get the perspective of the daughter, son, husband, and then the mom herself. It was deeply emotional for me, I felt everything from sadness, hope, guilt, anger, etc. I read her goal with this book was "to show how mothers whom we rely on to protect us may also be fragile beings in need of care" and I think she really hit the mark.
Yes to jack reading every Argentinean literature you talk about here and make a video about it. It's funny because I'm from Argentina and I have never heard of these books.
All these books sound great honestly(really jealous if I'm honest). An idea for a video I want to recommend is reading Greek translated books. Im from Greece and there are so many beautiful books and i hope you can find some translations because I find them dazzling
Some recommendations: Farewell Anatolia by Dido Sotyriou, Petros' war by Alki Zei, Imaret, three gods- one city by Yiannis Kalpouzos. The first is about the struggles that a young man faces during the raid of Smyrne and afterwards, the second is about a boy names Petros and how he deals with the awful conditions that Greece faces during ww2 and the third is about two men born 1854 on the same day, one a Greek and one a turk (during this time most of greece was captive by the Ottoman empire) and how their lives go from there as they become basically brothers despite their many differences on the surface
my fav booktuber ive been watching u since september 2021 i just love ur videos and that u dont just talk abt booktok and romance my fav videos are the celebrity book club can u do more of those?
Even though Spanish is my first language, I think that I've read more books originally written in English and I want to change that, so this video is perfect for me, so I'll be reading these books for sure
You could absolutely do a whole video on books from argentina/ Latin America. It would be fascinating to see your reaction to some of the literature about the dictatorships that spanned across the continent in pieces such as La Muerte y La Doncella by Ariel Dorfman (Chile) or Decir sí by griselda gambaro (argentina).
Scattered All Over The World by Yoko Tawada was translated from Japanese and is a really interesting dystopian, it is even described as a "cheerful dystopian". It is also the first book in a planned trilogy. Great book, totally recommend it!
Before reading The Adventures of China Iron you have to read Martin Fierro or maybe it has been translated to Martin Iron. It's the story of this gaucho man and this book is compulsory reading in schools in Argentina. China is his partner and this book is her story and her perspective.
Hi Jack, would you like to try some hungarian books? I've just recently found some translated to English and I would love to know what you think of my country's literature. Let me know, I'd love to send some your way!
Everything by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is just great. I can't recommend her enough. Hers and Camila Sosa Villada are the top contemporary writers of Argentina at the moment. I don't want to spoil anything to anyone, but they write about poorer towns of Argentina and LTBQ+ and feminist characters
The aventures of china Iron Is amazing, i cannot recommend it enough. Just have in mind that you might need some context since Is kind of a retelling of el Martin Fierro and a lot of thing were happening at the time in Argentina
Booktuber emmie has set hersself a challenge to read at least 1 book from every country which definitely seems up your street
ooo yes i love emmie
would be cool if my two most fav booktubers can have a collaboration 😍😍
omg i’d love a collab
I am doing something similar this year - trying 24 new countries. It has been tough to find some translated work so Jacks reviews have been nice! Looking forward to hearing more about these.
This would be great as a series as well, if you did like 3-5 new countries per video or something, and then a review of the books of course, I would love to watch that!
Jack singlehandedly contributes to increasing my TBR list by like 30%
Jack, I literally can't thank you enough for saying the names of the translators! In my very first seminar on professional translation, we were told that our "names will be forgotten, written in small in the back, and our work will never really appreciated because we are mere translators", so hearing you say the names gives a little hope that it won't happen!
In German books that have been translated from other languages the name of the translator may not be on the cover, but at least on the main title page inside most of the time :) at least from my experience cataloging library books, where the translators are almost always put into the catalog as well.
@@carinam.9447 That's great! Where I'm from, the names of translators are usually in the general description of books (along with date released, edition, etc.). Only poetry and Shakespeare's plays are distinguished based on the translator.
Well where I'm from actually the translator's name is written along the name of the author and people can chose which translator's work they wanna read, I mean there are usually more than one person translating a book in different publications, don't let them ignore your hard work
I try to remember the translators of books I really like. I love to read books from around the world and really like to dive into several books from a country to learn more about it.
One big example for me, Big love to Pevear & Volokhonsky for their amazing Russian classics!
1. Violets - Kyung-Sook Shin (1:00)
2. Fate - Jorge Consiglio (3:32)
3. Salt Crystals - Cristina Bendek (4:22)
4. Loop - Brenda Lozano (5:20)
5. Fish Soup - Margarita Garcia Robayo (6:18)
6. Resistance - Julian Fuks (6:58)
7. The Adventure Of China Iron - Gabriela Cabezon Camara (7:58)
8. Elena Knows - Claudia Pineiro (8:49)
9. The Forgery - Ave Barrera (9:42)
10. Never Did The Fire - Diamela Eltit (10:29)
11. A Musical Offering - Luis Sagasti (11:25)
12. Die, My Love - Ariana Harwicz (12:05)
13. Here Be Icebergs - Katya Adaui (13:05)
14. Death on Gokumon Island - Seishi Yokomizo (13:51)
THANK YOU. You the MVP!!!
Thank you
It’s literally one’s dream to have so many books sent by a publisher. It’s overwhelming as well, I suppose.
Perhaps you could also read books translated from less wide spread languages, for example Icelandic, Hebrew or Croatian.... I'd really aprreciate such a video.
If you want to read literature translated from Spanish I recommend Isabel Allende (The House of the Spirits), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (The Shadow of the Wind), Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), Julia Alvarez (In the Time of Butterflies), Jorge Luis Borges (Ficciones). Many of these books are among my all time favourites and I think you would enjoy them!
I love Ruiz Zafón!! One of my favourites. Great list 😍
In the Time of the Butterflies!!! I have to second this
Might I add a couple to the list? Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar and The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Yess it would be interesting to hear his opinions on the classics
yes to house of spirits (my fav book!!) and in the time of butterflies. also have to ask for one hundred years of solitude, or even like water for chocolate
I would LOVEEE to see a bookshelf tour with all the books you own! 😍📖
a lot of latin america in this book mail, and i love to see it! if you ever do a video on it, please please include some brazilian literature (i highly recommend Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector)
Hilda Hilst is great if you really want to 'read', some mind boggling stuff
i don't know if it's been translated to english but if it has, i think he'd love torto arado as well!
Evelio Rosero is a must, many of his books are available in English
Exato!!! Tô esperando ele ler alguma coisa br faz tempo.
I highly recomend you read anything by Isabel Allende, she¨s a chilean feminist writer. Her stories are just magnificient. I find her books to be more about the story than the ending. My personal favorite is Eva Luna. Beautiful writing beautiful soties and an inspiring writer...
I am now reading my first Allende novel, La casa de los espíritus and I am IN LOVE! I had never thought it would be so good and now I want to read everything by her 😻
I've only read Violeta but loved it!
I’ve read most of Allende’s work and I agree that you should read some. Eva Luna, House of the Spirits, and Violeta are all good choices.
Elena Knows is one of my favorite books of the year!!! (And just a little tip, China is pronounced cheena in Spanish!). Also Charco Press specializes in Latin American lit so yes 100% that’s a vid in the making!
So excited to hear you talk more about argentinian unhinged literature!
Sameeeeeee
Charco Press specifically publishes contemporary Latin American lit which hasn't previously been translated into English! Ariana Harwicz's 3 novels published by them are my personal favourites from their catalogue, they're all fantastic. If you're looking for other Latin American lit I'd highly recommend Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Roberto Bolano
“A collection of twelve stort shories”… I listened to that like 4 times lol
"stort shories" made me laugh harder than it should have 😂
What's funny is that he just charged through and didn't even notice he said that until he was editing😂
There are so many amazing Argentinian authors!! and you seem to have many books from them so maybe a reading vlog about Argentinian authors would be really interesting. My suggestions are Tender is the flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin, Eartheater and the things we lost in the fire
So pleased to see your excitement unboxing some of our books! Thanks Jack. Really hoping they bring you some reading joy.
if you end up making a video about latin american literature, you can’t leave out the posthumous memoirs of bras cubas!! some consider it to be one of the best books ever written, and it’s probably the most iconic brazilian novel ever.
vim recomendar memórias póstumas, mas claro que já teria um brasileiro por aqui fazendo isso antes haha
ou será Dom Casmurro o mais icônico? kkkkkkkkk a gente só sabe q o bentinho é louco
I wrote my thesis on Shin Kyung Sook's works (not Violets though because it wasn't yet translated and it was hard to find copies of her works in Korean) and I'm really excited to hear your opinion on her writing!
She is my favorite author! What was the thesis about?
@@kinrateia I analyzed the underlying feminist aspects present in two of her novels: The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness and Please Look After Mom. You probably know this but she is not an openly declared feminist writer so I basically focused on those aspects that could be overlooked at first glance. 😊
@@nicolechirilov7603 very cool! :0 Yes, the fact that she isn't vocal about her beliefs really does make analysing her works a more interesting thing. For example, we can pretty much tell from some of her works that some of her heroines have subtle traits in their lifes we would typically associate with wlw heroines (Violets is of course the most outward we have it in English), but it is never said or explored outright (not saying it is necessarily needed because novels are of course not about that) and we never hear her speak on it outside of her novels. Analysing her works, all we have to go off of is literally just her works, and it's such an interesting place to be.
@@kinrateia I totally agree. There is a similar dynamic in The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness/A Lonely room (wlw dynamic) but it is very hard to conclude that romantic feelings are indeed involved in the characters' relationship because everything is very subtle and often masked by fascination and admiration.
On another note the feminist aspects of her work do not end with the wlw dynamic.. they are also hidden in her portrayals of the historical events that involved women (in The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness especially since most of the "action" takes place in the 70's when women were forced/had no other choice but to work in factories) and in the identity of women as individuals not just as mothers (as seen in Please Look After Mom)
There's not a lot I can say about Violets because I have yet to read it but maybe I'll come back here after I finish it. Thank you so much for your input though.
@@nicolechirilov7603 I really couldn't be happier discussing about this with you. Nobody I know read her but her works mean so much to me!! Thanks so much! I am also glad I was not just seeing this, because The Girl Who Wrote Loneliness totally had something that seemed like a wlw dynamic, and then I found out it was so largely autobiographical and just felt not right about assuming. But then internet had no info about it at all! Shin Kyung-Sook really keeps to herself so you can never know directly. She has really developed and thought-through views on the world on a lot of topics though, as I particularly noticed in the Court Dancer, so she probably has something on her mind, just doesn't say it.
And - yes, as a history student, I too really enjoy the way she shows as women in history. Sometimes the most feminist approach about talking about them is just being honest and attentive, and she is. It is upsetting how rarely I see this, but in her books women feel more real rather than fictional characters, if that makes sense.
I've never been more proud of being from Argentina and Latin América 😭❤️I love you so much for reading translated fiction bc I get to know more books from Asia for example and even from my own continent and my own country ❤️❤️❤️❤️thank you
It's like traveling not just throught space but also in time ✨
Also I'm excited for you to learn about the dictatorship from 1976 in Argentina. It's one of THE historical tragedies from our country, along with the war for the Islas Malvinas (or as the uk wants to call them The Faulklands(?) We still call them Malvinas and we kinda refuse to say that uk won. We know it, but in our hearts and maps in schools The Malvinas are still from Argentina -in our hearts, you know?)
I have to be so careful when I watch your videos, cause after every single one I have the strongest urge to go buy more books and spend the rest of the day just reading. Your booklover energy is dangerous. 😂
I’m currently reading my first Korean translation and it’s “the vegetarian”! It’s so so good!! 😍
I read this book in 2021 et it is the book who made me fall back in love with reading!!
You should read « Kim Jiyoung, born 1982 » after!
Han Kang's "Humans Acts" is fantastic too!! It takes places during the Gwangju Uprising.
@@constancet9072 I heard so many good things about that one! Will definitely check it out 😻🙌🏼
@@kaylarssage thanks for the Recommendation!! 😍🙏🏻
I just bought that one! I look forward to reading it, as I haven't read any Korean literature yet (that I know of anyway).
omg a lot argentinan books !! I'm so excited to see you reading them, hope you enjoy it and continue reading argentine literature 🇦🇷
Aguante 💙🤍
hello jack, i was having a bad day until this notification popped up, thank u 💕
I love that you'll be reading argentinian literature ❤ btw, some context on The Adventures of China Iron, there's a classic book in Argentina called Martin Fierro and it's about the life and adventures of a gaucho, his partner "la china" is a character that has barely any presence in it, and that book is the author imagining her journey.
I also recommend "Eartheater" by Dolores Reyes, it's a magical realism book about a girl who eats soil and gets visions about murdered women.
YAAAAS finally it looks like you will be reading South American / Latin American literature!!!! I even sent you a book from Mario Vargas Llosa - Bad Girl (I know you still have it at your London house). Please do a video reading Latin American literature!! PORFAVORRRRRR! 😍🤩💃
Charco Press is a gem and Elena Knows is a masterpiece, easily one of my top books of the year. I hope you love it too!
Hey Jack! I thought this would probably put a smile on your face: In Greece, where translated fiction is all over the place, the name of the translator is always on the cover. When I first heard you say: “I’m happy that the name of the translator is on the cover”, I was like ok apparently sometimes publishers don’t put the name on the cover? Weird!
I’m sure this isn’t the first time it’s been said, but thank you for highlighting the translators on these books. A translator can help introduce you to an exciting new voice or ruin a good story for you.
Argentinian literature is beautiful! We really pride ourselves in our authors
Not translated but definitely helps to see the perspective of another country from a native's eyes: I will always write back by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda. A joint memoir of an American girl and a Zimbabwean boy who meet through a penpal scheme and it changes both their lives. I think you'll really enjoy it inspired by your recent united world schools visit, I devoured 3/4 of it in one sitting and if i was the type to cry at books I would have been sobbing
GLOWING after that vacation 🙌
I'm always so happy to see booktubers reading translated books!! I would hugely recommend the Chinese series 'The Three-Body Problem' by Cixin Liu which is a combination of historical fiction and sci-fi, which both aren't my favourite genres usually but this series is so fascinating and I would love to see your review of it! Also we studied a Vietnamese text 'Paradise of the Blind' by Duong Thu Huong in school, which is 1. translated and 2. banned in some countries for political reasons and it's really touching as well, I think you'd enjoy it a lot😌😌
I would like to recommend some more books that weren't originally published in English:
War and turpentine by Belgian author Stefan Hertmans. The author tells about the life of his grandfather. It's really beautiful
I'm currently reading The books of Jacob by Polish author Olga Tokarczuk. I haven't completely finished, but i'm close. It's about Jacob Frank, a false Messiah in the 18th century. It's long and weird and the beginning is hard to get through but it's completely worth it.
There is no English translation of this book, but it's originally in French and i remember you mentioning that you were learning French, so if you ever feel like reading a novel in French, i highly recommend Les jardins de Zagarand by Éric de Kermel. It's an exploration of another way of life in harmony with nature and with each other. It's beautiful and my favorite book of all time!
Jack I love that you are reading Argentinian literature. You HAVE to read Cortazar
I'm from Colombia and I didn't know about the existence of the book about San Andres. I'm adding it to my TBR right away!
jack, i’m begging you to read “posthumous memoirs of Bras Cubas” by Machado de Assis, the greatest writer of brazilian literature!! I genuinely think you’d be obsessed with his writing style!!
I can only imagine his reaction to the very first page 😂
@@isabellamochel he’d pass out the moment he read the dedication
i read a few weeks ago and loved it!! gave it 5 stars
Jack’s tan gives me a clear picture how exciting the vacation was.
Jack is the entire reason I’ve found my love for books💕💕 Thank you jack!
Charco specializes in South American literature. Fun fact, Charco means puddle in Spanish, which is how the Atlantic Ocean is sometimes colloquially called.
Never thought i'd see you reading The Adventures of China Iron! It's one of my favorites of all time
Julian Fuks, Gabriela Cabezon Camara, Djamela Eltit and Ariana Harwicz are amazing! you have quite a list here. Great haul! :)
I added almost all of these to read on goodreads as you told us about them 😍
After hearing about Loop, if you're looking for another retelling of the Odyssey I recommend Margaret Atwood's the Penelopiad. I'm currently writing an essay about it for school where I'm comparing it to Circe by Madeline Miller.
Nicee, having read both that sounds like such an interesting comparison essay
I’m so here for a South American literature video!
And you should also include One Hundred Years of Solitude to the video!
you said " I've been all over the place" I thought you meant mentally, I was like "me too" never mind tho lmao😭😭
And definitely would love book vid focusing on south/Central American books!!! I wanted to get more into those translated works as well!
Excited you're going to read some Daniel Hahn translations! He actually did a blog series about his process of translating Never Did The Fire, which has now been released as a book called Catching Fire: A Translation Diary.
Charco Press publish South American authors. I ❤️ them & think you can close your eyes & point at their catalogue & never be disappointed( unless it is written in Spanish, which i can't read☺️)I love 'Die my love ' & 'Elena knows. ' Next on my Charco TBR is 'Bricklayers' by Selva Almada & ' Loop.' They also have some books that actual translators have done like Sophie Hughes who translated Paradais & Jennifer Croft. Looking forward to getting to those. I love them & would think I was in heaven to get a box like that 😍.
Wonderful selection. I read some of the original books and all are blind blowing. Enjoy
Antibes is so underrated, I would 100% live there
So excited for you to enter this whole new world that is latin-american literature! And I must say, as a Brazilian, you have to look more into our literature; Clarice Lispector, José Saramago, Machado de Assis... there's also one book that I highly recommend that is called "Pacientes que curam" by Julia Rocha.
all of those sound absolutely amazing
I love your videos and also I would love to suggest a book. It's called 'The rage that remains' by Mareike Fallwickl. She is an austrian author and feminist. The book was written during the pandemic and focuses on what happens to a family if the mother, the primary care giver, isn't there anymore. I think this would be right up your alley. All the best!
i would absolutely LOVE a video on translated latin american fiction!! (personally, i am especially interested in colombian literature :) )
Also your videos have inspired me to read books (like hurricane season) in both English and Spanish to learn more about translation and the nuances of it.
i would be so happy if you read and reviewed some Russian books! there are so many fantastic Russian-speaking authors, both modern and already classic ones
OMG I can't believe this video.
I work in the argentinian publishing house that edited and published Fate by Jorge Consiglio and A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti. I'm so hyped to see that Charco press sent you the translated copies.
I can't wait to see what you think of them! ^.^
Oh my god if u enjoy Kyung-sook Shin read "Please Look After Mother" by her! It's a hugely popular book by her about a mother that goes missing and as her family is looking for her they realise they never really knew the woman they called mom, starting off with how none of them had a recent picture of her for the missing persons poster. You get the perspective of the daughter, son, husband, and then the mom herself. It was deeply emotional for me, I felt everything from sadness, hope, guilt, anger, etc.
I read her goal with this book was "to show how mothers whom we rely on to protect us may also be fragile beings in need of care" and I think she really hit the mark.
Yes to jack reading every Argentinean literature you talk about here and make a video about it.
It's funny because I'm from Argentina and I have never heard of these books.
You need to read The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas written by the Brazilian author Machado de Assis. It is one of the best books I read this year!
All these books sound great honestly(really jealous if I'm honest). An idea for a video I want to recommend is reading Greek translated books. Im from Greece and there are so many beautiful books and i hope you can find some translations because I find them dazzling
OMG I need titles and names now pls (if you can think of any)☺️
Some recommendations: Farewell Anatolia by Dido Sotyriou, Petros' war by Alki Zei, Imaret, three gods- one city by Yiannis Kalpouzos. The first is about the struggles that a young man faces during the raid of Smyrne and afterwards, the second is about a boy names Petros and how he deals with the awful conditions that Greece faces during ww2 and the third is about two men born 1854 on the same day, one a Greek and one a turk (during this time most of greece was captive by the Ottoman empire) and how their lives go from there as they become basically brothers despite their many differences on the surface
@@niovigeorgaki8157 AMAZING!!! Thank you so much❤️
literally putting every single book here on my tbr
Quote of the Day: “That’s a lot to take in. I’m confused and I like it!”
would LOVE a video of reading all or some of these!! :)
One of my favourite kinds of books are ‘Stort Shories’. 😂
Where do i get my motivation to read?
-Him
my fav booktuber ive been watching u since september 2021 i just love ur videos and that u dont just talk abt booktok and romance my fav videos are the celebrity book club can u do more of those?
Even though Spanish is my first language, I think that I've read more books originally written in English and I want to change that, so this video is perfect for me, so I'll be reading these books for sure
Yesssss Gabriela Cabezón Cámara! Awesome book!
Also, Claudia Piñero is chef kiss
We need a vid reading Argentinean books!! I also recommend Samantha Schweblin and of course Borges!
Nooo! I'm on a book buy ban until I read most of my tbr and now I want all of these.
Library!
i was having one hell of a week and u posting just made me okay again
Jack Edwards could sell anything on a late night infomercial - cuz we all be buying these
loving all the south american literature!! can’t wait for your review of the colombian books :)
Love your book 📚 mail and amazing wonderful videos
I just opened TH-cam to watch you and there you have a new upload, how lucky!
Very interesting books! 🙌🏻 I have been waiting for your rewiews 👌🏻
You could absolutely do a whole video on books from argentina/ Latin America. It would be fascinating to see your reaction to some of the literature about the dictatorships that spanned across the continent in pieces such as La Muerte y La Doncella by Ariel Dorfman (Chile) or Decir sí by griselda gambaro (argentina).
So excited, put a few of them in my tbr! Can’t wait to hear your opinions on them later☺️
Scattered All Over The World by Yoko Tawada was translated from Japanese and is a really interesting dystopian, it is even described as a "cheerful dystopian". It is also the first book in a planned trilogy. Great book, totally recommend it!
I saw this book in my local Waterstones recently and it intrigued me so much, I wished I picked it up
They've all got such stunning covers 🥵❤️
I love the amount of latin american books in this videos
✨stort shories✨
Before reading The Adventures of China Iron you have to read Martin Fierro or maybe it has been translated to Martin Iron. It's the story of this gaucho man and this book is compulsory reading in schools in Argentina. China is his partner and this book is her story and her perspective.
You don't have to, of course. But it would be nice for you to get the full experience
Hi Jack, would you like to try some hungarian books? I've just recently found some translated to English and I would love to know what you think of my country's literature. Let me know, I'd love to send some your way!
Jack always makes me feel like I’m an intellectual just by watching his videos lol 😂🫶🏽😭
I don’t have more money Jack you’ve to put a hold on the hauls cause I can’t resist 😩😩
I picked up Loop today from the library. I want to read all of these in the package.
I’m still waiting for Jack to dive into Dutch literature!
Heuy Nederlandeer, I mean, me too!
@@manonvo8615 Leuk een mede Nederlander hier te ontmoeten :)
Great haul! You have to read The Adventures of China Iron ASAP. it's so good! Elena Knows is great too 😍
I will continue to toot the same horn and I'm glad I have some supporters now. The posthumous memoirs of bras cubas by machado de assis. Marvelous.
Everything by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara is just great. I can't recommend her enough. Hers and Camila Sosa Villada are the top contemporary writers of Argentina at the moment. I don't want to spoil anything to anyone, but they write about poorer towns of Argentina and LTBQ+ and feminist characters
jack: *uploads*
me: *sigh* opens notes app
I would LOVE a video about South American/Central American literature!
jack is one plain branded tshirt away from becoming the simon cowell of the book world. just you watch 😂
I really think you would like to read Saramago, a portuguese author with an iconic writing style.. I recommend Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira (Blindness)
Alternative title: Jack struggling to pronounce names for 15 minutes
Resistance sounds incredible!! Would love for you to do a review on it!
oh to receive free books 😩
The aventures of china Iron Is amazing, i cannot recommend it enough. Just have in mind that you might need some context since Is kind of a retelling of el Martin Fierro and a lot of thing were happening at the time in Argentina