Currently in the Browsing Collection we have a display of recommended
reading in translation. I encourage you to pick up Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood, a novel about Japanese undergraduate students struggling with love and loss (this novel is a favorite among University of Michigan students), or Jussi Adler-Olsen’s latest chilling novel of murder and suspense, The Absent One, translated from Danish.
-Emily Hamstra, Learning Librarian, Shapiro Undergraduate Library
Recommended Reading in Translation
Browsing Collection display, late November 2012
The absent one / Jussi Adler-Olsen ; translated by K.E. Semmel.
The leopard / Jo Nesbø ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.
Norwegian wood / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin.
Wandering son / Shimura Takako.
The elegance of the hedgehog / Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
Gourmet rhapsody / Muriel Barbery ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
Monsieur Pain / Roberto Bolaño ; translated by Chris Andrews.
And my see-through heart / by Véronique Ovaldé ; translated by Adriana Hunter.
Suite française / Irène Némirovsky ; translated by Sandra Smith.
Feathered serpent : a novel / Xu Xiaobin ; translated by John Howard-Gibbon and Joanne Wang.
Yotsuba&! / Kiyohiko Azuma ; [translation, Amy Forsyth ; lettering, Terri Delgado].
The informers / Juan Gabriel Vásquez ; translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean.
The train / Georges Simenon ; translated [from the French] by Robert Baldick.
Hygiene and the assassin / Amélie Nothomb ; translated from the French by Alison Anderson.
Nodame cantabile / Tomoko Ninomiya ; translated and adapted by David and Eriko Walsh.
The winner stands alone / Paulo Coelho ; translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
A mad desire to dance / Elie Wiesel ; translated from the French by Catherine Temerson.
