The Book Recommendations Thread

[Stevie B]

I was aware that Seethaler had three books in English translation, but it appears there's a fourth - one in need of a publisher. Here's a sample of that book, The Cafe with No Name, read by Charlotte Collins, the translator of Cafe and Seethaler's three earlier novels. I used to think a translator was put under contract by a publisher prior to completing a translation, but that doesn't appear to always be the case, in Collins' situation anyways.

 

[Leseratte]

Thank you for introducing me to this writer. His books seem very introspective, which is a quality I prize. Looking at his novel The Field though, it struck me as being eerily similar to the Irish book Cré na Cille, though the tone is apparently very different. The Irish novel is more of a satire and a biting take-down of small village politics and the Austrian one is more introspective and tinged with nostalgia. An interesting parallel though!

I read the novel, because it was recommended on this forum. I only don't remember who recomended it.

 

[Leseratte]

The film looks promising, and it has motivated me to move the novel to the top of my to-be-read pile.

About the book, without publisher. The situation that I know is that the publishers look for a translator when they want to publish a translated book.
But it may be the case, if a translator is already known for his/her work, that he or she offers a translation to some publisher. I haven't listened to the video as yet but I hope they find a publisher. I was very impressed by the novel I read.

 

[Ben Jackson]

I was looking for recommendations of books in which there are constant, abrupt jumps forwards in time; it can be a family saga, or something else, as long as it keeps its attention focused on some character(s) while, from chapter to chapter, a long amount of time has passed. I'm thinking of something like Primeval and Other Times (Tokarczuk) or One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez). The tone being compassionate, warm, and poignant. Seemingly obvious examples are welcome, for, as much as I may have heard of a given book, classic or otherwise, I may be unfamiliar with its structure.

As another, more popular, example, I can point the House of the Dragon series, in which from one episode to the next dozens of years have passed, characters have aged, others died, and so on and so forth.

Thanks

Edit: I accept short stories recommendations as well. I've just thought of some of Munro's pieces that fit the description, following a whole life in a few dozens of pages.

Sorry if I'm late, but I think its time to grab Simon. Try Flanders Road or The Trolley. Aside from Simon, you can try Faulkner's Sound and the Fury, or the short stories of late Alice Munro: Progress of Love or the one I just finished Open Secrets.