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Please join New Vessel Press for an in-person event with celebrated Israeli author Maya Arad discussing her first book translated into English, THE HEBREW TEACHER, with Joshua Cohen, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Netanyahus, on Monday, April 15, 6 p.m. at Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers, 2020 Broadway at West 69th Street, NYC. Haaretz calls Arad "the finest living author writing in Hebrew." Stay for wine afterward.
A tribute to Jessica Cohen as "the most in-demand Hebrew-to-English translator working today" in The Jewish News of Northern California. "She has a super sensitive ear for the texts she translates, and she strives to find the right English words and the right register for each book,” says Maya Arad, author of the just published THE HEBREW TEACHER, adding that Cohen, now at work on her fifth book for New Vessel Press, also “makes sure every tiny detail is right until the text is perfect.”
Register for this free program with Maya Arad, author of The Hebrew Teacher:
Click below to watch an interview with National Book Award-winning author Stênio Gardel and translator Bruna Dantas Lobato about THE WORDS THAT REMAIN, a powerful Brazilian novel dealing with literacy, homophobia, and the triumph of an unforgettable figure on society's margins.
Read your way around the world with upcoming books from New Vessel Press including a new novel from acclaimed Russian author Sergei Lebedev set in Ukraine, an autobiographical French novel by historian Cécile Desprairies about Nazi occupied Paris, and a nonfiction work by Afghan-born Moshtari Hilal that asks why we fear ugliness. https://newvesselpress.com/forthcoming-books/
STARRED review in Kirkus for THE HEBREW TEACHER by Maya Arad. "Meticulously observed, with remarkable shades of subtlety and nuance. What could have easily become a political screed is, instead, a gentle inquiry into aging, what it means to be relevant, academic ambition, and, most particularly, the morality of Zionist politics . . . The quiet subtlety of Arad’s prose only pulls the strength of her insights into higher relief."
The new print run of THE WORDS THAT REMAIN now features the National Book Award Winner gold medallion on the cover. Congratulations to author Stênio Gardel and translator Bruna Dantas Lobato for this first for New Vessel Press.
Honoring Stênio Gardel and Bruna Dantas Lobato as finalists for the National Book Foundation/National Book Award, which praises THE WORDS THAT REMAIN as "deceptively simple, breathtakingly honest, and a compelling examination of intimacy in relationships that invites the reader to experience queer desire and survival through new perspectives. Bruna Dantas Lobato's translation brings the text to life, capturing the yearning for social and personal autonomy through fragmented memories. When love and life ail, Gardel's novel reminds us how language can be a form of resilience, offering us comfort and a path forward."
Francophile? Join Jean-Philippe Blondel, author of the bestselling novel THE 6:41 TO PARIS, for an online discussion of his new book CAFÉ UNFILTERED on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 6 p.m. CDT/7 p.m. EDT, sponsored by Watermark Books & Cafe in Wichita, Kansas. Free registration here: https://www.watermarkbooks.com/jeanphilippeblondel
"Yes, it's true: my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather was a slave trader." Click below to watch Booker Prize winner Jessica Cohen and author Agur Schiff read from PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT, a sharp, funny satire of contemporary attitudes toward racism & the legacy of colonialism, on Translators Aloud:
CAFÉ UNFILTERED is a novel celebrating the magic of a traditional French café. Chance encounters and anonymity collide against the muted background of global instability. Jean-Philippe Blondel, author of the bestselling THE 6:41 TO PARIS, presents a moving fresco of intertwined destinies portrayed with humor, insight, and tenderness. Get your copy and join in the caffeinated fun:
European TV network Euronews recommends the high suspense novel POLLAK'S ARM by Hans von Trotha in Elisabeth Lauffer's translation: "Delves into the life of Jewish antiquities dealer and museum director Ludwig Pollak, living in Rome as the Nazis begin to round up the city’s Jewish population. He tells his life story as the clock ticks, as he only has minimal time to escape to a refuge."
CAFÉ UNFILTERED is on World Literature Today’s Summer Reading List and should be on yours: "Are you a people-watcher? In his follow-up to the hit novel The 6:41 to Paris, Jean-Philippe Blondel peers into the lives of various characters who share a Parisian café as their nexus. WLT contributor and former Neustadt Prize juror Alison Anderson provides the English translation."
"The most fun you can have at an awkward dinner party," says the Santa Fe Reporter’s Annabella Farmer of Dana Shem-Ur’s debut novel WHERE I AM. "Emotionally captivating and, at times, hilarious ... Using sharp, witty, rich and intimate language, Shem-Ur creates a pervasive and almost omnipresent mood of unease ... WHERE I AM speaks to the human desire simply to be understood."
CAFÉ UNFILTERED by Jean-Philippe Blondel in Library Journal: "Each character comes fully and beautifully alive, and together their stories create a strong sense of people sorting through their lives and making changes. . . . Moving, insightful, and fun to read; for fans of literary and popular fiction alike."
PROFESSOR SCHIFF'S GUILT in Library Journal: "In prize-winning Israeli novelist/filmmaker Schiff’s insightful commentary on postcolonial responsibility . . . the professor is met firmly by his accusers, who finally point out that 'when a white European author writes about Africa, he is unwittingly reenacting an exploitative act.' This might damn the author himself, but he is to be praised for taking the risk as he hones important questions with razor-sharp intensity."
“Ann Goldstein gracefully captures Jarre’s alternation of warmth and indignation, of poignant observation and buried regret—the breadth of a most human writer . . . Return to Latvia is a memoir with real questions about shared history and atrocity. How can we look for the truth when no one will speak it?”—Words Without Borders
