Marina Sofia, translator and co-founder of Corylus Books Ltd, graciously agreed to be the first to record a video with recommendations about some of her favorite Wafer-Thin Books.
The five books recommended by Marina are:
- A Shameful Life, by Osamu Dazai, translated by Mark Gibeau (Stone Bridge Press, 144 pages)
Also translated as No Longer Human, translated by Donald Keene (several different editions available) and forthcoming in March 2024 from Tuttle Publishing in a new translation by Juliet Winters Carpenter. - Of Dogs and Walls by Yuko Tsushima, translated by translated by Geraldine Harcourt (Penguin Modern #43, 53 pages)
- Wir töten Stella (We Kill Stella) by Marlen Haushofer (not yet translated) (Ullstein Taschenbuch Verlag, 112 pages)
- Little Rebel by Jérôme Leroy, translated by Graham Roberts (Corylus Books Ltd., 82 pages)
- The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett (Picador, 128 pages)
Marina blogs at findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com.
If you’d like to take part and talk about some of your favorite Wafer-Thin Books, please email editor@waferthinbooks.com.
Thank you for these – always love to hear what Marina Sofia likes.
I don’t do video, but would recommend two slim volumes I’ve just read by Douglas Bruton – “Blue Postcards” and “With or Without Angels”. Stunning books packing masses into their pages, and he should be better known!
Thanks for sharing these — and please let us know here or on social media when you come across others!