recommend me a translated book

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It's the International Translation Day, so recommend me a good book you've read that was originally written in anything other than English :-)

I've been buying books all day thanks to this thread

I especially can't wait to read Convenience Store Woman and Life's a User Manual!

Germial and the rest of the series, Emile Zola

Germinal, (my hopeless eyesight )

The White Spider by Heinrich Harrer. The first part in particular is fascinating. It tells the story of the first attempts to climb the North Face of the Eiger.

Les Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier.

Hypnotic and beautiful tragic love story.

Beside the sea.

Warning tho. It's fairly harrowing.

Who's it by Stabbitha?

Anything translated by Stephen Sartarelli, he's brilliant. (He does the inspector moltalbano books amongst lots of other stuff)

Ooh another one, but this time with my Italian translator's hat on rather than French: If on a winter's night a traveller by Italo Calvino. This book had a huge impact on me the first time I read it and I still go back to it nearly 20 years down the line.

I was also going to suggest Shadow of the Wind, but @Kalim8 beat me to it. I loved that book and, at the time of reading, had no idea it was translated.

Sixteen trees of the Somme

If you like maths: Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis.

Totally

This is my recommendation, not translated by me I hasten to add: Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, The Island of Point Nemo. A kind of modern-day Jules Verne, one of my top all time favourites.

Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

Daniel Kehlmann, Measuring the World

Lars Saabye Christensen, Beatles

Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

I loved this
www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Natsuo-Kirino/dp/0099472287?tag=mumsnetforu03-21
It won't appeal to everyone though!

@grosseconnasse Connasse is my favourite word ever in French. I use it far too much.

100 Years of Solitude.

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backmann, originally Swedish.
It's one of my absolute favourite books, and I'm usually not a fan of translations.

Alone in Berlin

Sorry OP - just RTFT and seen that you're a translator - no offence intended!

My favourite Brazilian author is Jorge Amado. Captains of the Sand is my favourite book ever, but if you are up for lighter reading I cannot recommend "The Two Deaths of Quincas Water-Yell" enough.

Little Man What Now by Hans Fallada is also good (he wrote Alone in Berlin mentioned upthread.)

There's a Harry Mulisch book which isn't the Discovery of Heaven, but I can't remember the title, and am not at home to go upstairs and check, but it was about a man remembering a raid on their house in the war and how the neighbours reacted. And now it's going to annoy me that I don't remember.

Agree with a Balloon Dog -
Alone in Berlin

Also Defying Hitler

and for crime with Scandi domestic drama all the Camilla Lackbergs.

The Assault (thank goodness for Google.)
I read quite a few Dutch-authored books a while back after saying to a Dutch colleague, how come we never hear of Dutch writers? In a couple of cases, I realised why...