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Mauritius

The covers of the books featured in the Watchlist

The Watchlist: December 2022

By Tobias Carroll

Tobias Carroll recommends exciting new books in translation from Mauritius, Romania, Japan, Spain, Germany, and Puerto Rico.

Just Dinner, but Oh, What a Feast

By Rohan Kamicheril

Though food may fail to broker communication, this is often one of its major supposed roles.

A spoon with stringy bits of meat sits in a stew

Photo by mana5280 on Unsplash

Kari Disan

It hadn’t been a gastronomic experience so much as an obstacle course.

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

The Killer’s Monologue

Do I feel remorse? Of course not.

Translated from French by David Ball & Nicole Ball

Multilingual

Center of Flacq

By Barlen Pyamootoo

Flacq during the day is nothing more than a vast market; buy, sell, pound the pavements, work the sidewalks.

Translated from French by Danielle McLimore

Traces of Our Fathers

By Alain Gordon Gentil

The prairies of Brittany have sugarcane in their memory.

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner & Antoine Bargel

Diary of an Old Mad Woman

So you come from there, it must be so beautiful so wonderful; why do you live here when your island is so lovely.

Translated from French by Joyce Fortuné-Pope

Multilingual

Isle Say Blood

By Michel Ducasse

always the sea always / shameful the shameful ocean / bodies battered before touching the shore

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner & Antoine Bargel

Multilingual

Weaving Dreams

She answered, listening to the detailed instructions of the fabric against her skin.

Translated from French by Jean Anderson

Multilingual

Wild Daffodils

By Nathacha Appanah

Slowly, as we made our way up to the village, the air became crystal clear, rid itself of the city’s impurities, and we, too, shed our masks.

Translated from French by Geoffrey Strachan

Multilingual