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BKLYN BookMatch: 20th and 21st century women in translation

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Women Without Men
Shahrnush Parsipur
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A music behind the wall
Anna Maria Ortese ; translated from the Italian by Henry Martin.
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Faces in the crowd
Valeria Luiselli ; translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney.
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Thus were their faces
Silvina Ocampo ; translated from the Spanish by Daniel Balderston ; introduction by Helen Oyeyemi ; preface by Jorge Luis Borges.
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The slynx
Tatyana Tolstaya ; translated by Jamey Gambrell.
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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto ; translated from the Japanese by Megan Backus.
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The passion according to G.H.
Clarice Lispector ; translated from the Portuguese, with a note, by Idra Novey ; introduction by Caetano Veloso ; edited by Benjamin Moser.
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The laurels of Lake Constance
Marie Chaix ; translation by Harry Mathews.
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The queue
Basma Abdel Aziz ; translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette.
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Agaat
Marlene van Niekerk ; translated by Michiel Heyns.
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