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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · 3d

For @thesundaylongread.bsky.social recently:

The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura
By Tierno Monénembo & Translated by Ryan
Chamberlain

From @schaffnerpress.bsky.social

The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura
By Tierno Monénembo & Translated by Ryan
Chamberlain
Véronique Bangoura, we learn, goes on daily jaunts in Paris
with her wheelchair-using husband, and on one of those
meets Madame Corre. It turns out Corre recognized the
language she heard Véronique speak on the phone as
originating from Guinea, and she wants Véronique to tell her
story-why she's in Paris, and how she came to be (as
Madame Corre mistakenly believes) a personal care
assistant to the man in the wheelchair. Madame Corre has
her own painful history to share, and suspects Véronique
does too. And it is indeed from this shared place of pain that
the women begin to bond--and even to understand one
another across their seeming divide.
The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura tells of the
atrocities that happened in Guinea under dictator Sékou
Touré from 1956 to 1982. After my initial struggles with
style, I began to enjoy the rhythm of this work and
Véronique's singular voice. She's the survivor of a
complicated past, who through a series of unlikely events
has escaped to that place in exile where she encounters
Madame Corre-a woman whose own past shares unlikely
parallels with Véronique's.
All stories of political turmoil make more sense to us on a
human level, and in this emotional and moving retelling of
the brutality of Touré through the lives (and many deaths) of
Véronique and Madame Corre, Tierno Monénembo brings
what would otherwise be a distant news story and past
history to the present experience of the reader. Excellent
and memorable

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 10d

Happy publication day to "EYES IN THE SOLES OF MY FEET: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" by Caroline Sutton!

(And now that the finished book is out, one lucky reader will find an ARC in a Little Free Library in an undisclosed location. 🦀)

A hand holds a copy of "Eyes in the Soles of my Feet" in front of a Little Free Library.

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American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · 10d

We're excited today to give a shout out Schaffner Press for sponsoring the upcoming ALTA conference, ALTA48: Visions and Versions, held November 5-8 in Tucson, AZ! This crucial support helps to make the conference possible. Thank you! @schaffnerpress.bsky.social schaffnerpress.com

Schaffner Press – BOOKS OF SOCIAL RELEVANCE FOR DISCERNING READERS

Schaffner Press is an independent publishing company based in Tucson, Az. which focuses on books of high literary quality and topics of social concern.

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · 23d

Schaffner Press author Michael Bobelian, whose most recent book is “Battle for the Marble Palace," reviewed "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" by Jill Lepore for
@washingtonpost.com:

Review | ‘We the People’ says we need to make the Constitution easier to change

Historian and best-selling author Jill Lepore argues that the difficulty and rarity of amendment has led to a stifling of popular will, among other problems

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 23d

Hurray for #WorldKidLitMonth! Seven contributors have assembled a list of thirteen children’s, middle-grade, and YA reads translated from nine languages. Whether you're looking for a book for yourself or the kids in your life, we have something for everyone! wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

World Kid Lit Month 2025:
Fall Picks for All Ages
by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Ruth Donnelly, Katy Dycus,
Deborah Iwabuchi, Lori Sieling, Catherine Xinxin Yu,
& Hongyu Jasmine Zhu

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Sep 7

Publishers Weekly reviews "Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" by Caroline Sutton, out next month: www.publishersweekly.com/9781639640812

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Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Sep 5

You might be able to see from this shot that the cover design, a map of London from 1890, lines up across the spines of the four volumes. A little design Easter egg.

Neglected Books @neglectedbooks.com · Sep 5

Sheer shelf gorgeousness. Copies of the new US edition of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage awaiting their readers at @asterismbooks.bsky.social.

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vintage.stuff @vintagestuff.bsky.social · May 24

"I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited."

- Jorge Luis Borges

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 24

Anna-Maria Schipper Vermeiren, contemporary quilt artist of Haaften, The Netherlands #UnravellingWomensArt

Pictorial textile artwork in quilt form with images of red and pink flowers on tall green stems

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet: From Horseshoe Crabs to Sycamores, Exploring Hidden Connections to the Natural World" (out in October!), wrote an op ed for @easthamptonstar.bsky.social about protecting horseshoe crabs.

Read it here: www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...

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Pete Doree @petedoree.bsky.social · Aug 22

BOTD: Remembering the eternal Ray Bradbury. Here he is surrounded by his collection, and the wisest thing he ever said about collecting ( and he said a lot of wise things )

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Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury, you were the king of dropping six-page stories a kid could read once in 7th grade English class and be haunted by for the rest of their life

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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · Aug 22

Ray Bradbury (with scenes from the François Truffaut film adaptation of the Bradbury novel "Fahrenheit 451") - BOTD

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Real conservation means not just focusing on the plight of a single species but on the ecosystem in which it lives, supports others, and is supported." - Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet" in @easthamptonstar.bsky.social

www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...

Guestwords: End of a Keystone Species? | The East Hampton Star

This fall a Horseshoe Crab Protection Act will land on Gov. Kathy Hochul’s desk. It would ban harvesting these ancient creatures in New York rather than merely setting quotas, and this is vital to saf...

www.easthamptonstar.com

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JacquiWine @jacquiwine.bsky.social · Aug 14

An ongoing thread of some excellent books by #womenintranslation - all read since last August. 🧵

#WITMonth #TranslationThurs #BookSky #ReadWomen 💙📚

A bookshelf containing some of the books in translation I've read over the past few years - many by women.

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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · Aug 13

Katie Kitamura and Jhumpa Lahiri will headline the Center for the Art of Translation’s sixth annual Day of Translation festival, slated for September 18 at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn.

Day of Translation Festival Returns

Katie Kitamura and Jhumpa Lahiri will headline the Center for the Art of Translation’s sixth annual Day of Translation festival, slated for September 18 at the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn.

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Aug 3

This is delightful!

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Aug 3

Interesting! You're right––and that's a great explanation WHY it's a regionalism.

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Carla D. Martin @carladmartin.bsky.social · Aug 2

Just finished this wonderful book, which will stay with me for a long time.

Relatedly, read everything Harare Review of Books recommends. I've been working through the recs all summer and it has made my reading life shine. ✨

Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · Jul 26

Also inside, on p27: from me about The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura x Tierno Monénembo, Ryan Chamberlain (tr.), which is out now from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social.

Thanks to @laurencerand.com for the review copy!

#Guinea

REVIEW
JACQUELINE NYATHI
THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF VERONIQUE BANGOURA
A NOVEL BY TIERNO MONÉNEMBO
TRANSLATED BY RYAN CHAMBERLAIN
To live, to die and to tell

Should we protect the world from our pain, and our pain from the world, or share it far and wide?

IN TRANSLATION, the idiomatic
expressions and mannerisms of the
original language can sometimes
interrupt the reader's flow. But if that
happens in the first pages of Tierno
Monénembo's new novel, keep going.
The tale of the woman who will
be known as Véronique Bangoura is
enthralling. On one of her daily jaunts
with her wheelchair-using husband
Véronique meets Madame Corre, who
recognises the language she speaks as
originating from Guinea. Madame Corre
wants Véronique to tell her story- why
she's in Paris and how she came to be
(as Madame Corre mistakenly believes)
a personal care assistant to the man in
the wheelchair.
Madame Corre, you see, has her own
painful history to share, and suspects
Véronique does too. From this shared
place ofpain the women bond and come
to understand one another across their
seeming divide.
The Lives and Deaths of Véronique
Bangoura weaves its story around the
atrocities that happened in Guinea
under Sékou Touré from 1956 to 1982.
In the moving retelling of of Touré's
brutality through the lives (and many
deaths) of Véronique and Madame
Corre, Monénembo brings what would
otherwise be a distant news story and
past history to the present experience
of the reader.
Once any initial struggle with style in
translation passes, the rhythm of this
work begins to resonate, along with
the singular voice of Véronique - an
outstanding character who has survived
a complicated past and escaped it
through a series of unlikely events.

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Aug 3

It's beautiful!

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Aug 3

Always heard "and you don't get upset." Rhymes better, too!

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Schaffner Press @schaffnerpress.bsky.social · Aug 1

Coming in October 🦀

Cover design: Jordan Wannemacher

A hand holds the ARC of "Eyes on the Soles of My Feet" on a beach. A red bookmark sticks out and the background matches the bookmark.

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Harare Review of Books @hararereview.bsky.social · Jul 26

Also inside, on p27: from me about The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura x Tierno Monénembo, Ryan Chamberlain (tr.), which is out now from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social.

Thanks to @laurencerand.com for the review copy!

#Guinea

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Lauren Cerand Public Relations @laurencerand.com · Jul 24

Review copies of The Bone Whisperers (@schaffnerpress.bsky.social, 2024) are available. Shelf Awareness said it, “demands slow and thoughtful attention. It will cause readers to reflect on how their own lives have been touched by—or spared from—the effects of war.”

Email: [email protected].

Joanna @ashapiechowska.bsky.social · Jul 13

I happen to be staying in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the period marking 30 years after #Srebrenica so I picked up this book, “The Bone Whisperers” by Taina Tervonen. I recommend it to those interested in learning about the long term consequences of gen@cide. It’s no light reading but pertinent.

A book called “The Bone whisperers”. The cover depicts a hand of an older woman holding a sheet of paper with pictures of men who went missing during the Bosnian War in the nineties.

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Rónán Hession @ronanhession.bsky.social · Jul 20

Women in Translation month is coming up again in August. Not sure if interest is waning as it was quieter on Twitter the past couple of years and I'm not sure if it has transferred to Bluesky.

I'm reading for a review column during August with an all female line up so far.

#witmonth to take part.

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