Claire McAlpine
@clairewordsAvid reader, blogs Enjoys literary, cross cultural, translated fiction, creative nonfiction, Irish Lit, Women in Translation, Reviews at Word by Word, Adoptee
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Egyptian author @Sultans_Seal's first English-language novel, THE DISSENTERS, is set for release February 2025! After his mother's death, Nour discovers glimpses of his mother's many past lives across a 70-year span of Egyptian history. Pre-order now! brittlepaper.com/2024/09/yousse…
Wonderful to see this, I'm currently reading a novel by a previous #PrixGoncourt winner from 2021, Senegalese author #MohamedMbougarSarr's thought provoking 'The Silence of the Choir' translated from French #AlisonAnderson @EuropaEdUK
The longlist for France's most prestigious literary prizes, the Goncourt Prize (@AcadGoncourt) and the Renaudot Prize, include 5 African authors! Read more about the authors @daoud_kamel, @GaelFaye, @AbdelahTaia, Hemley Boum, and Hubert Haddad! brittlepaper.com/2024/09/these-…
Woke up to this from @Lindahill50Hill : “I completely lost my heart to #TheInheritance because it is part of the rich, varied and engrossing culture of storytelling that those influenced by Ireland seem to achieve so effortlessly.” 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I loved #TheInheritance by @CauveryMadhavan out from @hoperoadpublish on 19th September Here's my #bookblogger #review wp.me/p5IN3z-kLb
Six novels by 5 women, authors from 5 countries The Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist 2024 Here it is: clairemcalpine.com/2024/09/16/boo…
I watched THE DEMOISELLES DE ROCHEFORT at the @BFI today, and to be honest, the temptation to skip and twirl my way across the bridge to Embankment proved hard to resist. A sublime film! #FilmTwitter #Films
A books and brocante Sunday outing in a medieval village in the Luberon. It's the annual 'Vide Grenier', brocante season, so it's off to Ansouis I go to donate a box of books. And to see what literary gems one might find in such a monolingual 🇫🇷 village. clairemcalpine.com/2024/09/16/ans…
What a masterpiece! Her Side of the Story by Alba de Céspedes takes us deep into the mind and motives of Alessandra who looks back at the people, the events and community that shaped her psyche, in 1940's Italy. Prepare to deep dive, unputdownable. #wit clairemcalpine.com/2024/09/13/her…
A stunning novel, one of my top reads of 2024. A woman who wanted more, trying to break out of convention, looks back at what conditioned her, how she came to be in this position. 1940's Rome Her Side of the Story by #AlbadeCéspedes tr. Jill Foulston clairemcalpine.com/2024/09/13/her…
Good perspective, I hadn’t considered it in this way until I read this review. Must have another read of it someday…
New on the blog today, I've written about HOUR OF THE STAR by Clarice Lispector (tr. Benjamin Moser). At once an intriguing, multilayered meditation on the writing process and a compelling portrayal of innocence and simplicity in a complex, brutal world. jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/09/12/hou…
East End orphans Maria & Nora, good at needlework, enter service in a royal household. A scholar interviews women kept for years in an asylum. A woman left a quilt, searches out its origins. The Forgotten Seamstress by #LizTrenow #historicalfiction clairemcalpine.com/2024/09/12/the…
Everything about The Silence of the Choir enticed me to read immediately. Sicily 72 men land by boat, multiple voices, smoking Mt Etna a poet's muse, a multilingual priest, the "ragazzi" fearful, bemused, hopeful, confused, accused. 🙏🏼 @EuropaEdUK @DanielaPetracco Out 27 Sept
In the champagne region of France WW2, Inès, a new wife seeks her role in a traditional family metier 🍇🍾 makes an irredeemable error. 2019 Grandma brings Liv to Paris, to Rians. Meets lawyers. Why? The Winemaker's Wife by #KristinHarmel clairemcalpine.com/2024/09/11/the… @clairewords
The Cemetery of Untold Stories by #JuliaAlvarez A writer returns to her native land with boxes of unfinished stories. She will turn a wasteland into a resting place for the untold. Some voices need to be heard, others need to listen. clairemcalpine.com/2024/09/10/the… via @clairewords
Today on the blog, three quarters of the way through my 2024 reading project: “One often felt ungrateful in literary matters, as in so many others.” (Anthony Powell) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2024/09/10/one… via @madame_bibi
From the archive for Tezer Özlü #BornOnThisDay in 1943, my thoughts on COLD NIGHTS OF CHILDHOOD (tr Maureen Freely) This evocative portrayal of a young woman's fractured inner world is a striking rediscovered gem of Turkish literature. Highly recommended! jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2023/08/13/col…
"I have always enjoyed walking in the garden at night, to feel it breathe. And when I grew tired I would amble back to my little house, reveling in the peaceful existence of all that was green and filled with color in the light of day." jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2024/08/29/gar…
Liars by Sarah Manguso: ‘I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing.’ alifeinbooks.co.uk/2024/08/liars-… via @alifeinbooks
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