“An elegantly crafted study of the Berlin-born, Viennese Jewish Fanny von Arnstein … What makes this book so successful in illuminating Fanny’s life is that Spiel situates her in the precarious, often-times absurd, and almost exclusively anti-Semitic history of early modern and modern European Jewry, drawing on quotations from a wide range of documents. Spiel’s daughter, Christine Shuttleworth, is a masterful translator of her mother’s masterpiece.”
Shulamit Reinharz, director of the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center
We are pleased to announce that The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by Pedro Mairal, translated by Nick Caistor, was included on the 2014 Longlist for the Best Translated Book Award. You can see the announcement here – and keep checking back for more updates and to see if the novel has advanced to the next round.
Pedro Mairal talks about inspiration, style, and beaming books into outer space in this interview in Tweed’s Magazine.