2022 Women in Translation Bundle
2022 Women in Translation Bundle
Three women writers in translation, three stories about family and the lasting—at times bizarre—ways they can contour our lives, from Tahiti, South Korea, and France.
About the Books
By Kim Hye-jin
Translated from the Korean by Jamie Chang
Prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin’s debut confronts familial love, duty, mortality, and generational schism through the incendiary gaze of a tradition-bound mother faced with her daughter’s queer relationship.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632063496
Publication date: Sep 27, 2022
By Joy Sorman
Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud
Introduction by Catherine Lacey
“Joy Sorman’s Life Sciences takes an overtly political premise—the medical establishment’s inability or perhaps refusal to take seriously the physical struggles of women—and transforms it into a surreal and knife-deep work of fiction that asks: What pain can we abide, and what pain must we fight back against, even if the fight hurts more than the disease itself?”
—Lena Dunham, The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632062956
Publication date: Oct 12, 2021
By Titaua Peu
Translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman
Introduction by Rajiv Mohabir
Winner of the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize
Winner of the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize
From award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu comes Pina, a devastating novel about a family torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism and held together by nine-year-old Pina, a girl shouldering the immeasurable weight of her family’s traumas.
Paperback ISBN: 9781632061553
Publication date: Aug 16, 2022