Inka Parei: The Shadow
Parei, Inka (2011), The Shadow-Boxing Woman, Seagull Books Translated by Katy Derbyshire ISBN 9781906497958 Parei, Inka (2011), Die Schattenboxerin, Fischer ISBN 3-596-14869-3 Last week, I spent two days with two roomfuls of translators and of people academically and privately interested in translation. It reminded me of the fact of how embattled a field the arena [...]
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