Mandy Wight
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Book blogger, reader, German to English translator, languages teacher. Joys in life include hill and city walking, yoga, tango, travelling, theatre and cinema, speaking languages I know, and having a go at learning new ones.
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· Sep 5
The Life, Old Age and Death of a Working-Class Woman by Didier Eribon, translated by Michael Lucey.
Didier Eribon is probably best known to Anglophone readers for his memoir Return to Reims. There, he writes about his re-engagement with his family after decades of estrangement, in which he moved …
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· Sep 2
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· Sep 1
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· Sep 1
The City and the House by Natalia Ginzburg translated by Dick Davis-Women in Translation Month 2025.
I have to say that when I started reading this novel for Women in Translation Month, I did think the unthinkable: can one have a little too much of Natalia Ginzburg? It’s been, after all, barely tw…
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· Aug 28
Feet in Chains by Kate Roberts, translated by Katie Gramich, read for Women in Translation Month 2025.
The Welsh writer Kate Roberts was born in Caernarfonshire in 1891 and brought up in the slate-quarrying area of North-West Wales. She knew well, therefore, the landscape and the world of the quarry…
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· Aug 24
The Heart by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Sam Taylor.
I chose this novel for WITMonth because I loved Eastbound by Maylis de Kerangal, translated by Jessica Moore. The Heart touched me even more and in a more profound place. It’s not a romance, as yo…
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· Aug 13
Voices in the Evening by Natalia Ginzburg translated by D. M. Low
It’s been such a joy to read Natalia Ginzburg again for Women in Translation Month—though odd to call it a joy really when, as in so many of her books, her characters’ desire for love and connectio…
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· Aug 8
The Nights are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar translated by Ruth Martin.
In February 2024 I attended a book launch at London’s Goethe Institut where Shida Bazyar and her translator, Ruth Martin, presented her debut novel Sisters in Arms. I really enjoyed this book and w…
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· Aug 4
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· Aug 1
The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
The Safekeep, which has just won the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction, draws you in from the very beginning. Isabel finds a broken piece of ceramic under the roots of a dead gourd amongst the vegetab…
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· Jul 29
Das Vorkommnis- The Event by Julia Schoch
This short, concise novel begins with the eponymous event. The first person narrator, a writer, has just finished a reading of her new novel in the arts centre of a North German town. She’s sitting…
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· Jul 23
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· Jul 23
Beyond the Wall, East Germany 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
In this fascinating history of the 40 year life of the German Democratic Republic, Katja Hoyer aims to set the record straight. In the preface she says that reunification of East and West Germany i…
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· Jul 22
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· Jul 17
Museum der Einsamkeit, The Museum of Loneliness by Ralf Rothmann
I’m a fan of German writer Ralf Rothmann. I’ve enjoyed his writing set in the post-war Ruhrgebiet, like Junges Licht, as well as his wartime novels like Im Frühling Sterben,To Die in Spring, transl…
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· Jul 10
Siblings by Brigitte Reimann translated by Lucy Jones
This deceptively slim novel is set over one Easter weekend around 1960 in a provincial town in the former East Germany. It’s a very personal and intense account of a sister’s feelings when she lear…
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