I'll be naming my Book of the Year in a feature on @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social site. But I also want to highlight a superbly written and translated gem that deserves readers. There’s a Monster Behind the by Gaëlle Bélem, tr. by Karen Fleetwood, @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social (Bullaun Press). - ThreadSky

jacqbetula.bsky.social • 90 days ago

I'll be naming my Book of the Year in a feature on @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social site.
But I also want to highlight a superbly written and translated gem that deserves readers.
There’s a Monster Behind the by Gaëlle Bélem, tr. by Karen Fleetwood, @laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social (Bullaun Press).

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jacqbetula.bsky.social•90 days ago

My review is here.
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/in-brief/theres-a-monster-behind-the-door-gaelle-belem-book-review-declan-o-driscoll

laetitia-stloubert.bsky.social•89 days ago

Very warm thanks for your generous review and very kind words, @jacqbetula.bsky.social ! Karen and I are delighted to hear you enjoyed reading There’s a Monster Behind the Door. We certainly loved translating it and hope that Gaëlle Bélem and 🇷🇪 literature will get the visibility they deserve!

jacqbetula.bsky.social•89 days ago

Translators like you and Karen do a great service to us readers. And yes, there are - contrary to what some people report - men over 50 (even over 60) who are very happy to read fiction!

ravenbooks.bsky.social•89 days ago

This was so good!

jacqbetula.bsky.social•89 days ago

Yes. I hope it gets the readers it deserves but it isn't easy for a book from a small publisher to get noticed, no matter how good it is. There will be a review in the IT (not by me) in January which might help.

ravenbooks.bsky.social•89 days ago

Good to hear about the review. I read another from Bullan Press, very different but also excellent, they're one to watch fie sure.

jacqbetula.bsky.social•89 days ago

Definitely! I've read all of the books they've published and have reviewed three of them. My other favourite is I Am Lewy by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, translated Mícheál Ó hAodha. That's a great book, I think. A missing piece of Irish modernism.

jacqbetula.bsky.social•89 days ago

I'm not often in Dublin but I will definitely visit your bookshop the next time I am.

ravenbooks.bsky.social•89 days ago

Oh do! Give me fair warning as I do occasionally take a day off😄

ravenbooks.bsky.social•89 days ago

I'm going to read all their others, very curious to see what they publish next. So encouraging to have a translation house of such high quality on this tiny island of ours.

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