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I am an amateur translator from English to Russian. So far I translated only one book, "The wasp factory" by Ian Banks and "published" the translation on the web
http://spintongues.msk.ru/
(sorry, the main part of the site is in Russian, Russian - English translations are here
http://spintongues.msk.ru/scribbling.htm
Currently I am looking for a book to be translated. I hope that learned AWAD experts will recommend me something to their taste:
a) published as recently as possible and preferably by a new author, because I discovered that Ian Banks is being translated by somebody else;
b) not an ordinary detective or thriller story because there are thousands of them in the Russian Internet. I would like to enjoy translating something more or less sophisticated;
c) not too many pages (~200);
I hope to get as many suggestions as possible so I can find at least something at the amazon.
Get your favourite book translated into the language of Tolstoy!
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Grendel -- by John Champlin Gardner. I was going to suggest "The Map That Changed the World", by Simon Winchester, but it's nearly 300 pages.
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"Longitude" by Dava Sobel (175 p)
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I don't believe it! only two suggestions so far...do people there read books? do they like what they read? wrong place to post? wrong time?
OK, please, forget about the translation just recommend me a good book to read
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The Flanders Panel, by Arturo Perez-Reverte. Originally in Spanish.
How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker.
Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson.
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Dear Fallible,
Those titles look intriguing. Would you please say a few words about those books?
Thanks in advance,
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One warning: Cryptonomicon is great (if you like that sort of thing), but it's _not_ short, which as I recall was one of your listed criteria...
Consider: children's book (or, rather, young adults):
_The View From Saturday_, by E.L. Konigsburg
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WW, as you request, The Flanders Panel. Fiction. Mystery. Been a while since I read it, but here goes. These are two mysteries, an ancient one and a modern one, that are connected via another mystery in a painting. http://www.geocities.com/elbillaf/read_005.htmlHow the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker. Nonfiction. (The author's The Language Instinct is also on my list, but I probably wont get to it for at least a few years.) HTMW is reminiscent of Minsky's Society of Mind. The brain is not a single program, but a collection of (sometimes independent, and sometimes interactive) parallel agents. It's not a "general purpose computer" as it is commonly portrayed, but a very special purpose computer - and that's why it's so easy to fool. (autostereograms, picture puzzles, etc.) Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson. Historical fiction, science fiction (but not too far out scifi, really). Now my favorite book. Weaves an historical story from the world war 2 era involving a no-nonsense marine and a mathematical genius and codebreaker, in with a modern story about the decendents of those characters. This is Neal Stephenson's best book to date. (I haven't read Zodiac, so maybe it's better.) The best thing is that while I think he's grasping a bit at the end, he doesn't completely ruin a great story as he did in Snow Crash and The Diamond Age. k
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Thanks, Fallible, for your provision. The one of the mind--especially explanations of why the mind is easy to fool--sounds terrifically interesting!
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I don't believe it! only two suggestions so far...
dear vika! I wonder if people didn't respond for the same reasons I didn't: I couldn't think of anything recently-published that I'd read and enjoyed, that was about 200 pages.
Dunno about others here, but I am trying to catch up on a HUGE backlog of backlists....So many books published in the last several centuries that I want to read, and even in the last few decades, that I haven't been keeping up-to-date with new stuff.
But books I've read and enjoyed that aren't that recent, that I would recommend:
The Good Husband by Gail Godwin (novel about two couples and how their lives intersect - I'm not doing it justice with this very brief synopsis - the beauty of it is in the character arcs and the writing)
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (autobiographical novel with many "ah-ha!" moments)
and, very recent publication but longer than 200 pages: McCarthy's Bar, by Pete McCarthy (very funny travelogue about West Ireland)
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