Women in Translation Book Recs ✨📚

August is Women in Translation month! In honor of that here are four amazing books written by women and translated into English. These are all books that I’ve read over the last year or so and can say with full confidence are some of my favorites of ALL TIME! Don’t see your favorite? LMK the translated books you would recommend!

📘My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

- Lenu and Lila forge a strong but complicated friendship in a rural Italian village that alters the course of each of their lives

📕The Élégance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

- A surly concierge befriends a young girl living in her building. The two bond over art, philosophy, and literature and in the process, discover the meaning of life.

📗Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami

- A brutally honest assessment of modern womanhood and the ethics of motherhood.

📙The Postcard by Anne Berest

- A genre bending memoir about the author’s family. A heartbreaking personal narrative about Jewish identity and the holocaust.

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