Translations for books by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe, Zukiswa Wanner, Djaili Amadou Amal, and Sharon Dodua Otoo are available for your reading pleasure.
Book: Adas Raum
Original Title: Adas Raum
Author: Sharon Dodua Otoo
Translator: Hitoko Suzuki
Publisher: Hakusuisha
Publishing Date: March 29, 2023
Language: German to Japanese
Where to Find it: Click here.
Adas Raum
The long-awaited first novel from Ingeborg Bachmann Prize-winning author Sharon Dodua Otoo.
Sharon Dodua Otoo’s courage and passion for narration and her curiosity for understanding the present day are breathtaking. Everything in her world hangs by a silken thread: threatening to fall at any moment, floating in wondrous suspense.
So, too, with Ada, the protagonist of Otoo’s first novel. Ada is not one, but many women: She revolves in orbits between Ghana and London before eventually landing in Berlin. But she is also all women — because these loops transport her from one century to the next. And so, she experiences the misery but also the joy of womanhood: she is a victim, she offers resistance, and she fights for her independence.
With vivid language and infinite imagination — with empathy and humor — Sharon Dodua Otoo’s novel Ada’s Realm paints an astonishing picture of what it means to be a woman.
Book: As Madames
Original Title: The Madams
Author: Zukiswa Wanner
Translator: Jose Sa
Publisher: Ethale Publishing, Kiela
Publishing Date: May 11
Language: English to Portuguese
Where to Find it: Ethale Publishing.
“I am admitting defeat to my hectic schedule. I am giving in to something I thought I would never do. I’m going to hire a maid.”
And not just any maid … When Thandi decides she’s done with being a Supermom to her five-year-old son, a Superslut to her man and a Superwoman to her staff at the tourism board, she realises she needs to concede to the great South African bourgeois accessory: a maid. And since she doesn’t have the heart to boss a ‘sister’ about in her own home – and would love to see the look on her best friends’ faces – it’s going to have to be a white maid. The arrival of the charming ex-con, Marita, catalyses a chain of events which forces Thandi and her two closest friends to confront their assump tions about relationships, history and each other.
Book: A türelmetlen
Original Title: Les Impatientes
Author: Djaili Amadou Amal
Translator: Monika Burján
Publisher: Editions Könymolykézö
Publishing Date: May 12, 2023
Language: French to Hungarian
Where to Find it: Click here.
Three women, three stories, three linked destinies. This polyphonic novel retraces the destiny of young Ramla, torn from her love to be married to Safira’s husband, while Hindou, her sister, is forced to marry her cousin. Patience! This is the one and only advice given to them by those around them, since it is unthinkable to go against the will of Allah. As the Fulani proverb says: “At the end of patience, there is the sky. But heaven can become hell. How will these three impatient women manage to free themselves?. Forced marriage, marital rape, consensus and polygamy: this novel by Djaïli Amadou Amal breaks taboos by denouncing the status of women in the Sahel and delivers a moving novel on the universal issue of violence against women.
Book: The Son of the House
Original Title: The Son of the House
Author: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe
Translator: Lyubov Kotlyar
Publisher: Anetta Antonenko Publishers
Publishing Date: July 17, 2023
Language: English to Ukrainian
Where to Find it: Click here.
The lives of two Nigerian women divided by class and social inequality intersect when they’re kidnapped, held captive, and forced to await their fate together.
In the Nigerian city of Enugu, young Nwabulu, a housemaid since the age of ten, dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers’ endless chores. She is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man’s son.
Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery lovestruck Eugene brings her, but has no intention of becoming his second wife.
When a kidnapping forces Nwabulu and Julie into a dank room years later, the two women relate the stories of their lives as they await their fate.
Pulsing with vitality and intense human drama, Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia’s debut is set against four decades of vibrant Nigeria, celebrating the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man’s world.
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