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Bout of Books 31
Bout of Books 31
BOUT OF BOOKS 31
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CWA Crime in Translation Dagger
Last Saturday the Crime Writers Association (CWA) published long lists in each category of it’s annual awards, known as the Daggers.
I am in the fortunate position of being judge in the Crime Fiction In Translation Dagger. From a total of 70 entries our long list has attracted a large degree of interest with books from France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Finland and Iceland.
I've had a few people mention that they are not so familiar with the books so I wanted to add some details, which I hope will be encouraging, if not tantalising!
Girls Who Lie
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir
Translated from Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
Orenda Books
This is the follow up to The Creak On The Stairs which won the CWA New Blood Dagger in 2022. It sees Elma and the other detectives in Akranes investigate the death of a woman long known as missing. It features an atmospheric sense of setting in western Iceland and very realistic characters.
Hotel Cartagena
Simone Buchholz
Translated from German by Rachel Ward
Orenda Books
Public Prosecutor Chasity Riley and her colleagues in the Hamburg police force are unexpectedly put at risk when the hotel that they are drinking in is taken over by a gang who hold all the staff and guests as hostages. A tense situational drama unfolds which Riley must uncover the motive for.
Riccardino
Andrea Camilleri
Translated from Italian by Stephen Sartarelli
Pan Macmillan Mantle
The final story featuring Inspector Montalbano was kept in a safe by the author Andrea Camilleri for nearly 20 years. In this story the detective is woken by a phone call from a man named Riccardino who is later killed. As he looks to investigate the death, the author looks to complete the series.
Seat 7a
Sebastian Fitzek
Translated from German by Steve Anderson
Head of Zeus
A psychologist is on a flight across the Atlantic from Argentina to Germany which he is contacted by an unknown person who informs him that he must make the aeroplane crash otherwise he will kill his pregnant daughter. This is a fast paced thriller with plenty of twists.
Bullet Train
Kōtarō Isaka
Translated from Japanese by Sam Malissa
Penguin Random House Harvill Secker
Soon to receive a cinematic release featuring Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock, this is an action driven, funny and slightly mad story of 5 professional killers all onboard the same train from Tokyo to Morioka in Japan. As the journey progress they start to discover that their missions are somewhat related.
Heatwave
Victor Jestin
Translated from French by Sam Taylor
Simon & Schuster Scribner
A stifling story of a shy teenage boy on holiday at a resort in the south of France who makes a startling discovery. Following some ill thought actions of his own, he needs to try to spend the rest of his stay concealing what has happened while battling his own conscience and his own reluctance to socialise.
Oxygen
Sacha Naspini
Translated from Italian by Clarissa Botsford
Europa Editions UK
This is an unusual and distinctive story which follows the capture of a serial kidnapper, rapist and murderer from the perspectives of those impacted by him. These include his son, left in the shadow of his father's action, his final victim who survived and her mother who had given up ever seeing her daughter again.
People Like Them
Samira Sedira
Translated from French by Lara Vergnaud
Bloomsbury Publishing Raven Books
Set in the peaceful French Alps a seemingly normal man premeditates to bloodthirstily kill all four members of a rich mixed race family in their own home. Told from the perspective of his wife, she sympathetically addresses her husband as she considers the developments that lead to that fateful evening.
The Rabbit Factor
Antti Tuomainen
Translated from Finnish by David Hackston
Orenda Books
The start of a new series, this is a warm, quirky and funny story of a statistical mathematician who has lived an ordered life dictated by reason until the day he inherits an adventure park and a lot of debts. This will lead him into new social circles including conflict with some shady local businessmen.
The Scorpion’s Head
Hilde Vandermeeren
Translated from Flemish by Laura Watkinson
Pushkin Press Pushkin Vertigo
This first translation by a successful Belgian crime writer, The Scorpion's Head is fast paced thriller that traverses Europe which features a woman who is accused of trying to murder her son and a contract killer who eventually chooses to sign his own death warrant.
For the official list of the longlist please see:
https://thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-competitions/the-daggers/dagger-for-crime-fiction-in-translation
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@mensch_agency #fragile Demain en salle Fragile/cinéma Un film de: Emma Benestan Avec: Yasin Houicha, Oulaya Amamra (César du meilleur espoir féminin pour Divines),Tiphaine Daviot, Raphaël Quenard, Bilel Chegrani, Tassadit Mandi, Diong-Keba Tacu, Guillermo Guiz, Samira Sedira. Durée:1h40 Au cinéma :LE 25 AOÛT 2021 Az travaille d’arrache-pied chez un ostréiculteur de Sète. Il ouvre des huîtres à longueur de journée. Amoureux de Jess, une jeune fille de son âge qui se croit destinée à une brillante carrière, il décide de lui déclarer sa flamme en introduisant une bague dans l’une des huîtres qu’elle devait déguster. Jess, elle-même amoureuse d’une fille, ignore ce message. Profondément meurtri, désespéré, Az se confie à une amie qui décide de l’aider à conquérir sa belle. Cette amie lui propose un défi: lui apprendre une chorégraphie. Il accepte, elle va l’initier à la danse…… Cette comédie romantique d’Emma Benestan nous conte avec simplicité une très belle histoire d’amour et d’amitié. Une réussite. https://www.instagram.com/p/CS9icatMXCD/?utm_medium=tumblr
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2021
The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante
Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam
A Promised Land, by Barack Obama
Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
Some Body to Love, by Alexandra Heminsley
Fake Accounts, by Lauren Oyler
Hungry, by Grace Dent
The Panic Years, by Nell Frizzell
Consent, by Vanessa Springora
Acts of Desperation, by Megan Nolan
Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami
Notes to Self, by Emilie Pine
If I Had Your Face, by Frances Cha
The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey
Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi
Dostoevsky in Love, by Alex Christofi
Open Water, by Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Divines, by Ellie Eaton
The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Sorrow and Bliss, by Meg Mason
Jews Don’t Count, by David Baddiel
Omelette, by Jessie Ware
The Girl Who Died, by Ragnar Jónasson
The Startup Wife, by Tahmima Anam
The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley Heller
Assembly, by Natasha Brown
People Like Them, by Samira Sedira
Nothing I Wouldn’t Do, by Sara-Ella Ozbek
Topics of Conversation, by Miranda Popkey
Tribe, by Sebastian Junger
Magpie, by Elizabeth Day
Other People’s Clothes, by Calla Henkel
Millennial Love, by Olivia Petter
Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner
My Body, by Emily Ratajkowski
Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney
Just Ignore Him, by Alan Davies
The Audacity, by Katherine Ryan
Redhead by the Side of the Road, by Anne Tyler
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Whatever Happened to My Revolution (Tout ce qu'il me reste de la révolution), Judith Davis (2018)
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2021: July wrap-up
JULY 2021 WRAP-UP
My #20BooksofSummer21 is doing well. In fact, I have already read 21 books, but only 5 from my original list (and I had to DNF one from that list). Hopefully, I can read from this list by the end of August.
And actually, most important for me, I have managed to catch up with a few reviews (see links below), on books I received for review in 2019-2021, that I read and even…
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People Like Them by Samira Sedira
People Like Them
By Samira Sedira
Translated by Lara Vergnaud
Raven Books, Bloomsbury (UK)
Penguin Books (USA)
Publication Date: 8 July 2021
Originally published in French as Des Gens Comme Eux, People Like Them was the winner of the Prix Eugène Dabit in France and is probably the most powerful novels I have read this year. The book asks one central question: how could an apparently ordinary person commit the most atrocious of crimes? The story is not a whodunit, that is the clear from outset. Rather it is a whydunnit, that explores the insidiousness of racism, jealousy and financial envy.
The story opens with a rich description of the village of Carmac, within the Haute-Savoie department set in the eastern Alps of France which highlights the peace and tranquillity that can usually be found in the location. Yet behind the picturesque portrayal of a remote area in the mountains there is an ominous warning within the vocabulary.
From this serene setting we are then taken into the narrative of Anna Guillot who is reflecting upon the dreadful events that saw her husband Constant Guillot murder 5 members of the same family in cold blood. Her dialogue is written in a way that it is addressed to her husband of sixteen years as she recounts scenes from their everyday life from their original meeting to his appearance in the court room. We hear about Guillot's upbringing, the challenges he has overcome but also their ongoing reliance on others.
Carmac is shown to be a village where the inhabitants all know each other, where they have lived generation after generation and all live in relative equality. Anna starts to recall their close friendships with neighbours and some of the prominent and colourful characters of the village including their friends François, Simon and Lucie plus older residents like Abbott and Costello. Little changes in the village either but then an area is cleared for a new chalet to be built and it’s very apparent to all the locals that this will be a far larger residence than the existing houses in the village. When the residents Bakary and Sylvia Langlois and their three children move in, they are friendly and hospitable to all, inviting the locals to parties at their large residence. Bakary is very difference in appearance to the local inhabitants as he was born in Gabon where he was adopted by a Parisian couple and brought up in the city.
Constant Guillot's low self asteem receives a boost as he befriends the highly impressive Bakary and the two men spend lots of time together. He enjoys having a charismatic friend who has social status that he is keen to flaunt. François, Simon and Lucie also get on well with the new couple. However a chain of events and differences start to see Guillot distance himself from Langlois and Simon steps in between them.
What is particularly impressive about People Like Them is that Sedira's prose is so convincing. Little misunderstandings and implicit actions worsen the situation in a very believable way. For the reader it is very possible to feel a level of sympathy and perhaps understanding with some of the feelings that Guillot suffers from. Yet this is a quintuple murderer who killed innocent children! People Like Them is a highly thought provoking read which does lead you to question your own thoughts and sence of perspective. We view Anna Guillot try to reconcile this through her own recollections. As readers though, the novel leaves us with uncomfortable questions about our own ability "get closer to the shadows” to quite a phrase used by Sedira.
While very different in their execution, there is a similarity in themes with this novel and The Summer Of Reckoning by Marion Brunet. Both are set in rural France and the culmination of resentment, envy racism and social class spark the timbers that lead to an infernal rage of brutality.
Lara Vergnaud maintains the Francophone authenticity of the story in a taut translation which steadily builds up in tension as the families grow more distant.
At the conclusion of her book, Samira Sedira's note tells us that People Like Them is inspired by a true crime event committed in 2003 in a village in France’s Haute-Savoie region, where a man killed a family of five. Sedira observes that the media had not picked up on the point that the father of the family was black in an area of France that is largely white. Therefore her book is a fictionalised exploration of the factors which may have led to the murders.
People Like Them firmly presents the case that many murders are not born evil but are drawn to carry out such acts though their own weaknesses, their attempts to restore order and the failings of human nature. A real thought provoking and hard hitting novel of only 33 thousand words, I highly recommend it.
Samira Sedira is a novelist, playwright, and actress who was born in Algeria and moved to France as a young girl with her family. In 2008, after two decades of acting for film and the stage, she became a cleaning woman, an experience that inspired her autobiographical novel L’odeur des planches (The Smell of the Stage). People Like Them is her fourth novel and the first to be translated into English. Lara Vergnaud is an award winning translator who specialises in North African literature.
Many thanks to Katie Ellis-Brown and Ros Ellis at Raven Bloomsbury for providing me with digital and physical proofs of this compelling book.
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