Reading the World 2020

READING THE WORLD

is a year-long reading series which focuses on

Contemporary Fiction in Translation

from around the world.

 

FEBRUARY

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

by Olga Tokarczuk

POLAND

 

MARCH

Senselessness

by Horacio Castellanos Moya

EL SALVADOR

 

APRIL

The Memory Police

by Yoko Ogawa

JAPAN

 

MAY

The Unseen

by Roy Jacobsen

NORWAY

 

JUNE

My Brilliant Friend

by Elena Ferrante

ITALY

 

JULY

Track Changes

by Sayed Kashua

ISRAEL/PALESTINE

 

AUGUST

The Butcher of Casablanca

by Abdelilah Hamdouchi

MOROCCO

 

SEPTEMBER

Valerie

by Susan Stridsberg

SWEDEN

 

OCTOBER

An Episode in the Life of a Landacape Painter

by Cesar Aira

ARGENTINA

 

NOVEMBER

Cockroaches

by Scholastique Mukasonga

RWANDA

 

DECEMBER

Confessions

by Rabee Jaber

LEBANON