Babelguides: Boulevard Books

Boulevard Books

Yiddish After the Holocaust [Buy Direct]

Yiddish, the everyday language of the Jews of Eastern Europe for 1,000 years, was largely destroyed in its heartland by the Holocaust in a cultural extinction that accompanied the extermination of its speakers. (more...)

Magyar Menu [Buy Direct]

by Iván Bächer
Translated by Tim Wilkinson

A small nation with big appetites the Hungarians love to eat, cook and above all talk about their rich pepper-and-cream laden grub. No-one loves talking and writing about Hungarian food, (more...)

Keep it Safe! [Buy Direct]

During the run-up to the ‘Magyar Magic’ cultural festival in the UK 2003-4 I was introduced to a small, dynamic Hungarian woman in her seventies, Irén Ács, who has spent most of her life documenting her country as a photographer. (more...)

Eminent Hungarians [Buy Direct]

by Ray Keenoy

Watch out, there's a Hungarian about! As this lighthearted look at the phenomenon of famous Hungarians shows this is a small nation that has always punched well above its weight, playing a major role in innumerable fields, including; nuclear physics (Teller and Szilárd), (more...)

The Babel Guide to the Fiction of Portugal, Brazil & Africa in English Translation [Buy Direct]

by Ray Keenoy and Pat Odber and Tom Maccarthy and Maria-Manuela Lisboa and Maria-Amelia Dalsenter and Marina Coriolano-Lykourezos and Paul Hyland and David Treece and David Brookshaw and Carmo Ponte

Babel Guide to Jewish Fiction (Babel Guides) [Buy Direct]

by Ray Keenoy and Saskia Brown and Mark Axelrod and European Jewish Publications Society

Babel Guide to Italian Fiction in Translation [Buy Direct]

by Ray Keenoy and Fiorenza Conte and Helen Blucher-Altona

Intimate Diary [Buy Direct]

by Ana Cristina César
Translated by David Treece
Original title: various

Ana Cristina César’s Intimate Diary is a compilation of writings by one of the most outstanding figures of Brazil’s ‘marginal generation’, whose life and career were cut short by suicide in 1983. (more...)

Hotel Atlantico [Buy Direct]

by João Gilberto Noll
Translated by David Treece
Original title: Hotel Atlântico, Harmada

The two novellas that make up this compilation share an identical protagonist and narrative landscape: a nameless, solitary, out-of-work actor endlessly traversing the vast map of Brazil’s interior in search of his and his country’s true centre, (more...)

The Jaguar. A New Selection and Translation of Guimaraes Rosa’s Greatest Stories.

by Joao Guimaraes Rosa
Translated by David Treece
Original title: Primeiras estorias and Estas estórias (selection)

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