Harare Review of Books

Here’s a great list on Electric Literature of 11 Short Novels from Around the World that You Can Read in One Sitting, by Frances Yackel. Please click through for details, but have added some of these books to my TBR (and what a wonderful write-up!).

If you don’t feel like clicking through (but I really recommend that you do), here’s the list for your own TBR:

• Swallowing Mercury x Wioletta Greg, Eeiza Marciniak (tr.) (146 pages)
• Convenience Store Woman x Sayaka Murata, Ginny Tapley Takemori (tr.) (163 p)
• Evening Primrose x Kopano Matlwa (160 p)
• Trick x Domenico Starnone, Jhumpa Lahiri (tr.) (176 p)
• Ghost Wall x Sarah Moss (152 p)
• Dispute Over a Very Italian Piglet x Amara Lakhous (160 p)
• The Thief and the Dogs x Naguib Mahfouz (160 p)
• Farewell, My Orange x Iwaki Kei, Meredith McKinney (tr.) (128 p)
• Chronicle of a Last Summer x Yasmine El Rashidi (181 p)
• The House on Mango Street x Sandra Cisneros (110 p)
• McGlue x Ottessa Moshfegh (118 p)

Again, check out the list on EL.