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An independent publishing house devoted to fiction and narrative nonfiction from around the world.
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There's No Point in Dying x Francisco Maciel, Bruna Dantas Lobato (tr.), out from
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Jan 13. "A kaleidoscopic novel set in a favela of Rio de Janeiro."
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MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova is among the
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Most Anticipated Books of 2026. Translated from the Russian by
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MY DREADFUL BODY by Egana Djabbarova (tr.
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My Dreadful Body
Check out My Dreadful Body - <p><span><b>"Gripping, vivid . . . plainspoken and elegiac. I've never read anything like it."—Claire Oshetsky, author of<i> Poor Deer</i></b></span></p><p><span>A…
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Lisa C. Hayden
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Thank you so much
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for your skeet and kind words about My Dreadful Body, wr. Egana Djabbarova, tr. me, pub.
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! I feel very fortunate to have translated Egana's book for NVP. It's not long but it brims with life & ideas to contemplate.
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Just finished the forthcoming
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title My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova, translated by
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Mark your calendars, you will want to add this book to your TBR list. A story of the body as the intersection of cultural expectations, family, and disease.
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"Artist and theorist Moshtari Hilal dismantles the cultural construct of 'ugliness,' examining how beauty norms are weaponized against marginalized identities...A provocative and timely meditation on both her own self-image and the larger beauty industry."
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THE WORDS THAT REMAIN by STÊNIO GARDEL and translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato via
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was my 2023 six-stars-of-five read. It's a read that truly healed something in me, and writing about it was very cathartic.
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THE WORDS THAT REMAIN, and mold and carve and stain
THE WORDS THAT REMAIN STÊNIO GARDEL (tr. Bruna Dantas Lobato) New Vessel Press $16.95 trade paper, available now Rating: 5* SIX of ...
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UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal
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among "The Visuals That Defined Style This Year . . . For the young Ms. Hilal, trying to live up to Northern European beauty standards meant engaging in near-constant combat with herself."
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UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal
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"The Visuals That Defined Style This Year." "For the young Ms. Hilal, trying to live up to Northern European beauty standards meant engaging in near-constant combat with herself."
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“i found an excellent six-stars-of-five read for 2025 in THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by ANJET DAANJE, and translated from Flemish by David McKay via the estimable tastemakers at New Vessel Press.”
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Art lovers on your holiday gift list? The shop
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suggests A FEW COLLECTORS by Pierre Le-Tan, packed with tales about often obsessive eccentrics and illustrated with dazzling drawings by the author, and THE EYE by Renaissance art historian Philippe Costamagna.
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Sam Sacks
23 days ago
Here's a brief thread of the fiction that has stayed with me most in 2025, a year in which I reviewed exactly 100 books, and was more grateful than ever for the chance to do so. First, these are screenshots of the three brilliant novels that made the WSJ Best Books list.
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje, translated by David McKay, has been named to the 2026
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Translation Prize Longlist.
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Thrilled to see Elisabeth Lauffer's translation of UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal longlisted for the
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Greg Barrios Book in Translation Prize.
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER
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100 Notable Books of 2025. "Haunting, powerful . . . This provocatively labyrinthine novel dissects the consciousness of an amnesiac veteran of World War I" in a marriage that he realizes "'is built on quicksand, one false step and they'll drown together.'"
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Anjet Daanje tells the Substack newsletter Auraist about her stylistic choices for THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, a 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature finalist. "I hate shortening texts, it feels like maiming someone you love," she says.
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UGLINESS by Moshtari Hilal
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"Hilal takes what feels most intimate about the body and reveals its entanglement with the most public and political forces. Amultidisciplinary artistand curator, she mixes poetry and essays with reams of images."
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Ugliness – Moshtari Hilal
The nose is not just cartilage and skin; it is inheritance, race, femininity, a mark of refusal, a repository of hatred and desire.
https://www.full-stop.net/2025/12/03/reviews/hannah-weber/ugliness-moshtari-hilal/
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The Wall Street Journal names THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje to its 10 Best Books of 2025!! "The incantatory prose, translated by David McKay, makes ordinary aspects of marital life feel newly discovered."
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The 10 Best Books of 2025
Ten works of fiction and nonfiction that stood out among those our reviewers read this year, selected by the Journal’s books editors.
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A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, written in the footsteps of a man of letters,
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: "Daniele Del Giudice’s first novel, finally available in English, creates a magical tension between an active life and the contemplative act of writing." Translated by
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER on
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025: "Absorbing, suspenseful, closely-observed...beautiful and detailed, perfectly balanced...Character insights creep up on you and ring absolutely true...definitely worth the ride."
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CONGRATULATIONS to
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for my 2025 6*-of-five read, THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, being a <i>New York Times</i> 100 Notable Books of 2025 selection!
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER ANJET DAANJE (tr. David McKay) New Vessel Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $22.95 all editions, avail...
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-remembered-soldier-flemish-writer.html
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A FICTIONAL INQUIRY reviewed in
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: "Del Giudice’s languorous, meditative novel is now finally available in English, thanks to a disarming translation by
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Carina van Heyst
about 1 month ago
I finished Anjet Daanje’s The Remembered Soldier and, in short, I loved it. In long…I wrote an excessively long (continued in comments long) post about it over on IG.
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER named to 100 Notable Books of 2025
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. The novel by Anjet Daanje and translated by David McKay—Finalist for National Book Award—also named
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to their lists of the Best Books of 2025.
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about 2 months ago
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Ready for Chanukah on Dec. 14? This rich medley of writings features evocations of Chanukah by Sholom Aleichem, Nobel laureates S. Y. Agnon and Elie Wiesel, I. L. Peretz, Emma Lazarus, Theodor Herzl, Chaim Potok, Mark Strand, A. B. Yehoshua, and Joanna Rakoff.
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about 2 months ago
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THE HEBREW TEACHER by Maya Arad, translated by
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, has been longlisted for the Freudenheim Translation Prize of the
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The Freudenheim Translation Prize - Jewish Literary Foundation
Recognising outstanding translations of books with Jewish themes or those of significant interest to both the Jewish and wider community.
https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/awards-prizes/the-freudenheim-translation-prize
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The Spectator
about 2 months ago
The pacing and tone are noirish in this metaphysical detective story, set in Trieste, about the space between writing and life. ✍️ Dennis Duncan
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A philosophical quest: A Fictional Inquiry, by Daniele del Giudice, reviewed
A researcher arrives in Trieste to piece together the life of a well-known literary figure. In cafés, bookshops and hospitals he visits the friends and lovers who were part of the writer’s circle....
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-philosophical-quest-a-fictional-inquiry-by-daniele-del-giudice-reviewed
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A FICTIONAL INQUIRY praised
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as "a memorable metaphysical detective story" in "elegant translation"by
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about literary legend Bobi Bazlen who "brought out the first Italian editions of Freud, Kafka and Musil,but produced no writing of his own."
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Carina van Heyst
about 2 months ago
Currently reading and loving: The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (trans. David McKay). Love the way Daanje blends and layers dreams and memories and the “present” (of the book) in a flowing present tense narration.
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Celebrating THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER by Anjet Daanje as a finalist for the National Book Award with translator David McKay. Congratulations to the winner, We Are Green and Trembling.
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Honoring THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER author Anjet Daanje and translator David McKay as finalists for the
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Award in NY ahead of the awards ceremony on Wednesday. In Daanje's stead, novelist
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read an excerpt of her work.
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about 2 months ago
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Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS, for the New York Jewish Book Festival a the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday, Nov. 16, 10:15 a.m. Click here for free registration:
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER chosen as the "best-written" book among finalists for the 2025 National Book Award for Translated Literature, according to Auraist, a Substack newsletter focused on the prose quality of works shortlisted for literary prizes.
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The New York Times recommends THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER among "The Best Historical Fiction Novels to Read Right Now."
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suggests the novel, a finalist for the National Book Award, for the reader who says, "I'd like an affecting, surprising family drama."
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For 50 years, Leah has written an annual New Year's letter to her fellow teachers' college colleagues in Israel. She falls in love, is unfairly maligned, makes bad decisions, is proud or aggravated about her sons, and is betrayed more than once.
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Happy New Years
After finishing her teaching degree in Israel, Leah emigrates to the U.S. for a teaching position that she thinks of as temporary. She ends up staying for 5 decades.
https://www.gpgottlieb.com/podcasts/happy-new-years
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about 2 months ago
From New Vessel Press, translated from the Russian by Lisa C. Hayden, My Dreadful Body, by Azerbaijani novelist Egana Djabbarova. “According to my mother’s strict orders, the big, bushy black eyebrows in the oval mirror were not to be plucked.” Delightful. (Comes out April 7, 2026.)
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Join Maya Arad, author of HAPPY NEW YEARS, for the New York Jewish Book Festival a the Museum of Jewish Heritage this Sunday, Nov. 16, 10:15 a.m. Click here for free registration:
mjhnyc.org/.../2025-new...
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A VERY BRAZILIAN CHRISTMAS is featured in the Rizzoli Bookstore 2025 Holiday Catalogue. This gorgeous hardcover anthology and other volumes from the New Vessel Press Very Christmas series are available at a bookstore near you.
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail via
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FINALIST FOR THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE! Winner announced 19 November 2025.
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THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER, Flemish writer explores the Great War's breakage in intimate detail
THE REMEMBERED SOLDIER ANJET DAANJE (tr. David McKay) New Vessel Press ( non-affiliate Bookshop.org link) $22.95 all editions, avail...
https://expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-remembered-soldier-flemish-writer.html
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Cory Oldweiler
2 months ago
My thanks to
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for the chance to write about Anne Milano Appel’s English-language translation of Daniele Del Giudice’s 1983 debut, A Fictional Inquiry. It’s the first time English-speakers have had a chance to read the late Italian writer’s exploration of the writing life.
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on A Fictional Inquiry, a novel by Daniele Del Guidice, translated from the Italian by Anne Milano Appel – On the Seawall
https://www.ronslate.com/on-a-fictional-inquiry-a-novel-by-daniele-del-guidice-translated-from-the-italian-by-anne-milano-appels/
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"Anglophones at last have an opportunity to engage with this intriguing and intellectually stimulating novel for the first time."
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in On the Seawall about A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice.
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2 months ago
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Maya Arad discusses her award-winning THE HEBREW TEACHER on
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's Van Leer Institute podcast. Host Renee Garfinkel calls Arad "a singular literary voice whose works have redefined the contours of modern Hebrew literature." Listen here:
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"Daanje unfurls a staggering modernist work of love, guilt, and the slippery nature of identity. It takes place in the years after WWI, when a woman recognizes an amnesiac veteran as her long-lost husband. The story grows increasingly complex."
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"Would I allow myself to be exceptionally ugly?" asks Moshtari Hilal in her intimate and political book UGLINESS, excerpted
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. Girlhood author
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calls UGLINESS, translated by Elisabeth Lauffer, "wondrous and important."
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Cartography of My Ugliness - শুদ্ধস্বর
Moshtari Hilal reflects on body, politics, imperialism, and alienation as an Afghan in exile.
https://shuddhashar.com/cartography-of-my-ugliness/
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2 months ago
atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write
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Read an excerpt from A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated from the Italian by
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,
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. This metaphysical detective story tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste to retrace a fabled literary figure.
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2 months ago
“Even if it’s just a brief nap, like this half-hour one, afterward you have to start all over again.” Read from Daniele Del Giudice’s novel A Fictional Inquiry, translated by
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A Fictional Inquiry
A Fictional Inquiry tells of an unnamed narrator visiting Trieste and London to retrace the footsteps of a fabled literary figure. The novel is inspired by the life of Trieste-born Roberto (“Bobi”)…
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Watch this intriguing video in which Daniele Del Giudice talks about the inspiration for his novel A FICTIONAL INQUIRY, the legendary literary figure Roberto Bazlen. Trieste-born Bazlen helped found one of Italy's most celebrated publishing houses,
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vimeo.com/506207913
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Today is publication day for A FICTIONAL INQUIRY by Daniele Del Giudice, translated by
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. This haunting novel, championed by Italo Calvino, is a modern Italian cult classic appearing in English for the first time.
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