This winter, we’re looking forward to a series of engaging conversations on Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga (Jordan Stump, Archipelago Books); The Propagandist by Cecile Desprairies (Natasha Lehrer, New Vessel Press); Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo (John Sturrock,…

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This spring, four remarkable novels in translation —Accords Suspendus by Helen Garner, L'Inventaire des rêves by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, L'Age fragile by Donatella Di Pietrantonio, and Perle by Sian Hughes — have become available to Francophone readers. They ntricately explore the…

The four novels, all translated from the French with great care, in this list—grapple with silence. They ask: what do we carry forward when the world has shifted beneath our feet? What remains when memory falters, when language fails?

The books gathered in this reading list do not shout—but they are anything but quiet. They engage with the subtle and seismic forces that shape our relationships, our politics, and our inner lives. Each, in its own way, asks us…