Reading soooo slowly. But this book needs to be savored.
p. 27:
He wasn’t a bad man, although he made me leave school, and the headmaster was very upset about it, but I was needed to cook for the harvesters because Mother wasn’t up to it, and I also looked after the twins.
In this novel, labor is front and center. Whether that labor is writing, or housecleaning, or making things with one’s hands.
All the translations self has read so far this year have been excellent:
- Moshi Moshi, by Banana Yoshimoto (transl. from the Japanese)
- The Summer Book, by Tove Jansson (transl. from the Norwegian)
- Manderley Forever, by Tatiana de Rosnay (transl. from the French)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
Kanlaon 
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