Shelf Unbound October/November 2013 October 2013 | Page 20

feature

globe trotting

LAT LONG LIT
From Argentina to Djibouti, the Three Percent 2013
Best Translated Book Award Fiction Finalists

Hungary
Satantango (winner)
by László Krasznahorkai
translated from the Hungarian
by George Szirtes
“… Satantango takes a look at evil in its everyday
forms. Satantango is a diabolical novel, a bleak,
haunting, hypnotic, philosophical, black comedic
deconstruction of apocalyptic messianism.”
—Will Evans
New Directions | www.ndbooks.com

Russia
Maidenhair
by Mikhail Shishkin
translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
“Maidenhair is the novel I have been waiting for; a
powerful, moving novel that combines everything
I love about literature in general, the beauty
of language, the power of ideas, the love of
characters, the genius of the Author as Master.”
—Will Evans
Open Letter Books | www.openletterbooks.org
18

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013