Reader's Block

They are everything I love in books. They are translations. They offer up the promise of excitement and foreign destinations.

I love the feeling I get when I'm reading a book written originally in another language. Sometimes I can almost hear the echo of the original story.

So I started the trilogy Your Face Tomorrow by Javier Marias. And then I started it again. And again. And again.

I don't understand why they won't work for me.

Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya. Loved it.

Ghosts, An Episode in the Life of A Landscape Painter, and How I Became a Nun by Cesar Aira. Fantastic.

War by Candlelight, and Lost City Radio by Daniel Alarcon. Great.

Roberto Bolano, Jose Saramago, Javier Sierra, Alina Bronsky, Elena Ferrante, Robin Yassin-Kassab, Mohammed Hanif to name a few others.