Dec 10, 2012
In this week's podcast (Tom's last one of of the year), we discuss the translations we did (and didn't) read from 2012, including Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, Satantango by Laszlo Krashnahorkai, Woes of the True Policeman by Roberto Bolano, and Necropolis by Santiago Gamboa. This kicks off the beginning of our "best of" podcasts for this year. Next week we'll talk about music, and in the new year, Tom will be back to discuss the best movies of 2012.
Since I mentioned this a million times during the podcast, here's the list of books I'm looking forward to reading over the next couple months:
- Woes of a True Policeman, Roberto Bolano
- Death Sentences, Kawamata Chiaki
- Investigation, Philippe Claudel
- Revenge, Yoko Ogawa
- Encyclopedia of a Life in Russian, Jose Manuel Prieto
- Ariadne in the Gortesque Labyrinth, Salvador Espriu
- The Map and the Territory, Michel Houellebecq
- Atlas, Kai-Cheung Dung
- Black Flower, Young-ha Kim
- LoveStar, Andri Snaer Magnason
- Traveler of the Century, Andres Neuman
- Mathematique, Jacques Roubaud
- Raised from the Ground, Jose Saramago
- Tyrant Banderas, Ramon del Valle-Inclan
- Down the Rabbit Hole, Juan Pablo Villalobos
- Transit, Abdourahman Waberi
- Museum of Abandoned Secrets, Oksana Zabuzhko
- Blindly, Claudio Magris