In this episode, Trevor and Paul spend some time talking about one of their favorite publishers, Archipelago Books. They each share three of their favorite Archipelago titles and talk about a few they want to read soon.

This episode also includes an amazing giveaway that will supply one lucky winner with a year’s worth of translated fiction!

We hope you enjoy this episode!

Links for this episode!

• List of all Archipelago Books
• Current Archipelago Catalog
• The Boxwalla
• Man Push Cart, d. Ramin Bahrani
• Brandon Sanderson Secret Project Kickstarter

All of the books brought up in this episode!

• Scattered All Over the Earth, by Yoko Tawada, tr. by Margaret Mitsutani
• Lucky Breaks, by Yevgenia Belorusets, tr. by Eugene Ostashevsky
• Good Behavior, by Molly Keane
• The Loser, by Thomas Bernhard, tr. by Jack Dawson
• Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
• Othello, by William Shakespeare
• The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare
• In Memory of Memory, by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale
• The Gate of Angels, by Penelope Fitzgerald
• The Bookshop, by Penelope Fitzgerald
• Tranquility, by Attila Bartis, tr. by Imre Goldstein
• My Struggle series, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, tr. by Don Bartlett
• Sarajevo Marlboro, by Milijenko Jergovic, tr. by Stela Tomasevic
• Kin, by Milijenko Jergovic, tr. by Russell Scott Valentino
• Spring Tides, by Jacques Poulin, tr. by Sheila Fischman
• Autumn Rounds, by Jacques Poulin, tr. by Sheila Fischman
• An Untouched House, by Willem Frederik Hermans, tr. by David Colmer
• The Twin, by Gerbrand Bakker, tr. by David Colmer
• Love, by Hanne Ørstavik, tr. by Martin Aitken
• The Pastor, by Hanne Ørstavik, tr. by Martin Aitken
• Stone Upon Stone, by Wieslaw Mysliwski, tr. by Bill Johnston
• Eline Vere, by Louis Couperus, tr. by Ina Rilke
• Wonder, by Hugo Claus, tr. by Michael Henry Heim
• Salka Valka, by Halldór Laxness, tr. by Philip Roughton
• Wayward Heroes, by Halldór Laxness, tr. by Philip Roughton
• Kibogo, by Scholastique Mukasonga, tr. by Mark Polizzotti
• Cockroaches, by Scholastique Mukasonga, tr. by Jordan Stump
• Our Lady of the Nile, by Scholastique Mukasonga, tr. by Melanie Mauthner

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