Notre dernier titre vient de sortir, en librairie début juin où en pré-commande, diffusé par Serendip.

#imanmersal
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My favorite reads of 2023 (not all new, all literary fiction except where noted):

Biography of X - #CatherineLacey
Traces of Enayat - #ImanMersal (nonfic)
After Sappho - #SelbyWynnSchwartz
Noopiming - #LeanneBetasamosakeSimpson
This Accident of Being Lost - #LeanneBetasamosakeSimpson
The Wall - #MarlenHaushofer
Bad Cree - #JessicaJohns (horror)
Your Love Is Not Good - #JohannaHedva
Flux by #JinwooChong
The New Animals - #PipAdam
Tomb of Sand - #GeetanjaliShree

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Another top book of 2023: Traces of Enayat by #ImanMersal (originally published in Arabic in 2019). I picked this up only because the 2 books I recently read from this publisher (And Other Stories) were amazing. So glad I did. After randomly picking up a novel, Mersal spends years trying to find out who the author was, and why her life ended tragically. Mersal's writing is intoxicating, I kept forgetting that this was nonfiction, and it made me wish dearly that I was still an academic myself.

"Sometimes a piece of writing can shake your very being. This doesn't mean it has to be unprecedented in the history of literature or the best thing you've ever read. It is fate, delivering a message to help you make sense of whatever you're going through - and at the exact moment you most need it, whether you realise it or not...When we turn to contemplate our lives, it is these works that let us see."
#ImanMersal in Traces of Enayat (about #EnayatAlZayyat)

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Where are all the wasted days?

C.V.
Iman Mersal, translated from the Arabic by Robyn Creswell

#Poetry #PoetryInTranslation #ArabicPoetry #ImanMersal #RobynCreswell #CV #NewYorkReviewOfBooks

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2021/05/13/c-v/