2024 Challenge Category #11

 CHALLENGE CATEGORY #11

A TRANSLATED BOOK

If there's one thing you need to know about my reading habits, it's that I cannot get enough of translated fiction. There's just something so special about the way tones and themes translate from language to language and culture to culture. I've already recommended My Husband by Maud Ventura and Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung in the past, but luckily for us, I was just scratching the surface of what books originally written in other languages have to offer.

Blindness by Jose Saramago

Picture this: you're driving home from work after a long day. You're stuck in an unusual amount of traffic and just starting to question it when suddenly you can't see the road anymore. In fact, you can't see anything anymore. When an epidemic of "white blindness" strikes the city and possibly the entire world, nobody knows what to do. Is it catching? Is it permanent? How do you keep your loved ones safe in such an unprecedented situation? Readers and characters alike ask themselves all of the above questions in Jose Saramago's 1995 classic Blindness.

Explore other feats of translation with our list of stories here:

The Woman in the Purple Skirt by Natsuko Imamura

The Vegetarian by Kang Han

Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux

China in Ten Words by Yu Hua

The Balcony by Jean Genet

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