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Explore Children's Books from around the world - with many stories making their English translation debut. January can be a long cold month, so cuddle up with your young readers and some new stories during our 25% OFF SALE on all Children's Books.
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In support of Women in Translation we have made a permanent collection. See it here.
As always, we are a source for world literature in English translation.
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Happy Release Day Eleanor Reissa!
Release date: January 18, 2022
“'The Holocaust," Eleanor Reissa writes in this unforgettable and courageous book, 'is attached to me like my skin and I would be formless without it.' This is a very personal story that is also a fundamental one of a woman trying to make sense of her life and family and of the shadows that go back before she was born.
There is plenty of feeling and sentiment, but it never feels sentimental. Her inimitable wit leavens the sadder scenes. This journey of discovery is riveting, told with tender insight, at times heartbreaking and at times heartwarming, just like the Yiddish songs that have delighted Ms. Reissa’s audiences.”
—Joseph Berger is a New York Times reporter and author of Displaced Persons: Growing Up American After the Holocaust
Staff Pick
Not a folktale, not a poem, not a dream, but some whirling mixture of the three, this lulling recitation by Iranian author Hadi Mohammadi affirms generosity as a natural impulse.
--Publishers Weekly
Never underestimate the impact of large format picture books. Readers enter the story through the gentle drawings of Nooshin Safakhoo. As the words of the story skim across each page in English, we can imagine the sound of the original Persian, translated by Sara Khalili.
World Literature in English Translation
This collection is truly a treasury of audio history.
"It's wonderful to hear the voices of these Yiddish writers so present and intimate. An important and powerful feature of this new release is that it makes the works accessible to non-Yiddish speakers in an audible form, in very good translations and movingly read."
--Daniel Kahn, singer, songwriter, translator
Yiddish Literature in Translation
Out of Print
Yiddish translations are on the rise. They also go out of print at an alarming rate. Detour Books: Found in Translation is devoted to tracking these titles, writers and translators and keeping their books in the hands of readers.
