Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
lmk if there's any books on the longlist that you want me to talk about more. would also love to hear how you are finding the list xoxoxxo
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0:00 - Intro chats and disclaimers
2:26 - Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches
4:59 - Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
9:03 - A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
11:00 - The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
13:24 - White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster
14:36 - Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
16:54 - Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
19:55 - The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
21:43 - What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
23:53 - Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
27:15 - Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn
30:40 - The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky
30:48 - Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
lmk if there's any books on the longlist that you want me to talk about more. would also love to hear how you are finding the list xoxoxxo
✨ sub to my newsletter: kirangill.substack.com
✨ insta: instagram.com/swamikiran
0:00 - Intro chats and disclaimers
2:26 - Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches
4:59 - Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
9:03 - A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
11:00 - The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
13:24 - White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster
14:36 - Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
16:54 - Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
19:55 - The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
21:43 - What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
23:53 - Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
27:15 - Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderon, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn
30:40 - The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky
30:48 - Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
