So the other day I did the good #books recommendation meme on Twitter and forgot to post my list here. There are 25 books so please bear with me. >.<
1) The Tiger's Wife, by Téa Obreht I could summarize the plot but it wouldn't do the book justice. Think the Balkans, a young woman and her grandfather, war and doctors, ethno-religious conflicts, and a man that cannot die.
2) Death's Dream Kingdom by Gabriel Blanchard
A devout #Catholic in #Victorian England is turned into a #vampire. Things get even worse after that. (I really don't care about vampires but I've been a fangirl of Mudblood Catholic for years and boy he did NOT disappoint. Read it!)
3) Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis
There are two good translations available in English: Epitaph of a Small Winner, and The Posthumous Memoirs of Braz Cubas
You should read both.
#Brazil #literature #translation (or not, if you can read in PT)
4) An Experiment in Criticism, by C.S. Lewis
Lewis talking about books is my favorite thing, and the kind of scholar I lowkey still hope to be someday.
5) Tirant lo Blanc, by Joanot Martorell
Extremely OTT chilvaric romance! #Cervantes liked it it too, for those of you who care about such things.
7) Shakespeare Our Contemporary, by Jan Kott
"Kott is undoubtedly the only writer on Elizabethan matters who assumes without question that every one of his readers will at some point or another have been woken by the police in the middle of the night." - Peter Brook
8) Senhora, by José de Alencar
A young lady buys herself a husband to spite him. (This is only novel from Brazil's Romantic period I've ever enjoyed, and one of my all-time favorite books. The translation looks good, too)
https://books.google.com.br/books?id=3nuOYKszeJgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
9) The Instructions, by Adam Levin
10 year-old Ethiopian Jewish genius boy might be the Messiah, gets expelled from the Chicago public school system, falls in love, starts a war, gets life in prison. Buy the ebook, your arms will thank you later.
10) The Light Princess by George MacDonald
I have nightmares about trying to translate the puns and general wordplay in this. NIGHTMARES. It's a really funny story, though!
11) Inkheart, by Cornelia Funke
12) The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
One of the very first English mystery and sensationalist novels! Featuring sleuthing techniques, multiple POVs ("the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness"), and sisterly love!
13) Os Lusíadas, by Luís de Camões
Camões is to Portuguese what Shakespeare is to the English language. Oh, and the story of Vasco da Gama's voyage to India is really cool! (There are multiple translations available in English, at least two of which were published this century.)
15) The Girl from Everywhere, by Heidi Heilig
What if you could travel through time and space, real or fictional, as long as you had a map leading there? (For those of you liked Inkheart!)
16) Emma, by Jane Austen
I think I've read it more times than any other Austen novel... maybe five? It's been a while, though.
17) Science in Translation, by Scott L. Montgomery
Yes, more non-fiction. An amazing exploration of the relationship between science and translation throughout the ages, from the Romans to modern Japan.
18) Neuromancer, by William Gibson
I'm sorry, I'm basic af, but if you haven't read this you should.
19) Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday
An anthology of 19th century short stories edited by Italo Calvino.
20) Act of the Ship of Hell. a play by Gil Vicente
First in a trilogy of morality plays. They have all been translated into English but you'll have to hunt them down. Gutenberg has a few others in a bilingual edition, but I haven't read them: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28399
#Portugal #theater #plays #Catholic #literature #translation #books
22) Honestly anything you can find by Fernando Pessoa or his heteronyms. He wrote in English but most of his best work was written in Portuguese.
23) O Tempo e o Vento, by Érico Veríssimo
A trilogy in seven volumes, it follows the story of a family and the Brazilian southern state of Rio Grande do Sul from the 1700s to the mid-20th century. Only the first book is available in English, titled Time and the Wind.
24) Olympos, by Aki
More manga, yay! Despite the gorgeous art, this one really isn't for everyone. If you don't mind slow, opaque stories with inconclusive endings, please give it a try? You can also just look at all the pretty people, I won't judge.
25) The King of Elfland's Daughter, by Lord Dunsany
#books #sff #fantasy #fairytales
And here ends my meme book recommendation list. Sorry for all the spam.
21) Morte e Vida Severina, by João Cabral de Melo Neto
Play in verse, translated into English by Elizabeth Bishop.
#books #translation #poetry #theater #Brazil #literature