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  • If This Be Magic

    The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

    by Daniel Hahn ...
    **How does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? In this playful, meditative exploration of translating the world’s most beloved playwright, Daniel Hahn guides us through the magic of bringing the Bard to a global audience."For those who care deeply about language, and about Shakespeare. . . this will be a treasured book." —James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Catching Fire

    A Translation Diary

    by Daniel Hahn ...
    Series series Untranslated Series
    An energizing real-time journey through the translation of Never Did the Fire and the process of literary translation.In Catching Fire , the translation of Diamela Eltit's Never Did the Fire unfolds in real time as a conversation between works of art, illuminating both in the process. The problems and pleasures of conveying literature into another language—what happens when you meet a pun? a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Infinite Sadness

    by Antônio Xerxenesky ...
    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    In a small village in the Swiss Alps, in the aftermath of World War II, particle physics and psychiatry grapple with a forever changed world.Nicholas walks the wooded path between the sanitarium where he works and his home, alert to a possible menace lurking in the trees, haunted by the possibility of an evil just out of sight. His days are spent ministering to minds that have been grievously ... Read more

    $20.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Polish Boxer

    by Eduardo Halfon ...
    Translated by Ollie Brock, Thomas Bunstead, Lisa Dillman, Daniel Hahn, Anne McLean ...
    The nomadic odyssey of Eduardo Halfon begins as he searches for information about his Polish grandfather’s imprisonment at AuschwitzNew York Times Editors’ Choice * International Latino Book Award FinalistThe Polish Boxer covers a vast landscape of human experience while enfolding a search for origins: a grandson tries to make sense of his Polish grandfather’s past and the story behind his ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Living and the Rest

    by Jose Eduardo Agualusa ...
    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    **“Cross J.M. Coetzee with Gabriel García Márquez and you've got José Eduardo Agualusa, Portugal's next candidate for the Nobel Prize” — Alan Kaufman, author of MatchesA thrilling tale that considers how the mind bends when the known world ends in a storm’s flashA Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year and Winner of the Portuguese PEN Prize**A funny and lively tale about a group ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • One Hundred Guinea Pigs

    by Gustavo Rodríguez ...
    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    Friendship makes life worth living, and worth ending too.Eufrasia Vela is a caregiver—it’s not just her job. But when she begins working with Doña Carmen, a bedridden elderly woman who spends her days staring out the window at her now-obstructed view of the sea, she confronts the limits to her ability to help. That is, until Doña Carmen makes a big, last request: to transform her caretaking from ... Read more

    $20.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Did the Fire

    by Diamela Eltit ...
    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    What happens when two revolutionaries are left with nothing to believe in, not even each other?Never Did the Fire unfolds in the humdrum of everyday working class existence, making the afterlife of an agitator that of anyone living next door. For one old couple, brought together years ago in an underground cell, the revolution has ended in a small apartment, a grinding job caring for the bodies of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature

    by Daniel Hahn ...
    Series series
    The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most fertile periods in the history of children's books: the flowering of imaginative illustration and writing, the Harry Potter phenomenon, the rise of young adult and crossover fiction, and books that tackle extraordinarily difficult subjects. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature provides an indispensable and fascinating reference guide to ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD

  • A Girl Is Lost in Her Century, Looking for Her Father

    by Gonçalo M. Tavares ...
    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    In Europe after World War II, amid a landscape of rubble, skeletal figures and almost absolute social and psychological helplessness, a girl and a man wander among the ruins.Hanna, a 12-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome, is looking for her father. Marius, her companion, seems to be hiding from something. Aided by a simple instruction card, Hanna launches into the exploration of what a human being ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Vortex

    by José Eustasio Rivera ...
    Translated by Victor Meadowcroft, Daniel Hahn ...
    Series series Charco Classics
    “The most influential Colombian novel before Gabriel García Márquez.”—Times Literary SupplementA new translation of a Latin American classic, José Eustasio Rivera's The Vortex follows the young poet Arturo Cova and his lover, Alicia, as they elope from Bogotá and embark on an adventure through Colombia's varied and magical landscapes. When Alicia—pregnant, jealous, and more than a little fed up ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Red Earth

    A Novel

    by Morgana Kretzmann ...
    Translated by Daniel Hahn ...
    Three women find themselves caught in the crossfire in this pulse-pounding saga of a Brazilian community in crisis and the environmental tragedy that threatens to engulf it.On the lush Brazil-Argentina border, greed runs deep. A proposed hydroelectric dam spells doom for both the vibrant ecosystems of the Turvo State Park and the people who call it home. Park ranger Chaya refuses to stand by while ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    If This Be Magic

    The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation

    by Daniel Hahn ...
    Narrated by Daniel Hahn, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 29 min

    **How does Shakespeare remain Shakespeare when every word is changed? In this playful, meditative exploration of translating the world’s most beloved playwright, Daniel Hahn guides us through the magic of bringing the Bard to a global audience."For those who care deeply about language, and about Shakespeare. . . this will be a treasured book." —James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook