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July #Bookhour: The Gringo Champion by Aura Xilonen (trans. Andrea Rosenberg)

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For July’s #bookhour, Laura Linares, Leona Blair, Julia Hieske and Donna Alexander discussed The Gringo Champion by Aura Xilonen and translated by Andrea Rosenberg. During the course the discussion, topics included the narrative style and translation of the novel. Participants considered the ways in which language highlights cultural fluidity and issues… Continue reading

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Storify of our #bookhour twitter chat on MAÑANA MEANS HEAVEN by Tim Z. Hernandez

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During April’s #bookhour discussion Dr Niamh Thornton, Dr Nicola Moffat, Eilidh Hall and Dr Donna Maria Alexander discussed the deeper meaning of the narrative and paratextual elements of the novel, the significance of biography in the third person, and how the landscape and cityscape functions alongside the two key characters of Bea Franco and Jack Kerouac. Read the storify here. Continue reading