Saturday, September 21, 2024

valentino & sagittarius by natalia ginzburg (trans. avril bardoni)

these stories go really well together - recountings of quiet family tragedy that is so mundane yet so fascinating when told through these resigned, listless, but loving young women characters' point of view. perfect one-act drama.

roadside picnic by arkady & boris strugatsky (trans. olena bormashenko)

 It was lovely to read this after making attempts at books where it seemed like the prose was struggling to convey information, because the ...