The Best Books in Translation
DECEMBER 30, 2008 TUESDAY AT 3PM CT

 
 
While the whole world is busy writing great books, fewer than three percent of them get translated and make American bookshelves. This prompted the New York Times five years ago to declare that "America Yawned" at foreign fiction, but is it still true? Raid your library and join Jean Feraca as we share the world's best books in translation.

Guest
  • Esther Allen, director of the Center for Literary Translation
  • TBA
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