Passages from the following books were read in both the original languages and in English. All were very compelling--I encourage you to pick one and read it!
- Poem: The End of the Book (Freg Ikh Bay Mayn Libe Froy) by Moyshe-Leyb Halpern' s in the book Yiddish Poetry, A Bilingual Anthology, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1986.
- Suite Française by Irène Nemirovsky, translated from the French by Sandra Smith. (I read the English excerpt of this at the presentation and my friend Michèle read the French!) French edition published by Denoël, English edition published by Alfred Knopf. Moving novel about French life during WWII by an author whose manuscript was recently discovered, and who was herself deported and killed by the Nazis. For more about her and her manuscript, go to Book Browse's summary.
- Dom dzienny, dom nocny/House of Day, House of Night, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. English Edition ISBN 0810118920; Polish edition ISBN 83-900281-9-0.
- An excerpt from La tregua/The Reawakening by Primo Levi, translated by Stewart Woolf. Read in Italian by David Russi and in English by Dannah Edwards. English ISBN 0684826356). Clever and moving - uplifting although also dealing with the Holocaust.
- Laços de Familia/Family Ties, by Clarice Lispector, translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero. Portuguese ISBN: 8532508138, English ISBN: 0292724489.
- Cien años de soledad/One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory Rabassa. Various editions of this book are available.
- Die Märchen der Brüder Grimm/Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm. German ISBN 3-442-00412-8, English ISBN 0553382160 - find it on Amazon. Absolutely hilarious original version of Cinderella (and other tales) before it was sanitized by 20th Century society.
