Claims: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

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  1. title: The best recent translated fiction – review roundup (alleges; supported) Source
  2. url: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/21/the-best-recent-translated-fiction-review-roundup (alleges; supported) Source
  3. summary: The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio; Short Circuit by Wolf Haas; Cosmos by Lucia Odoom; The Fallen Trees Are Also the Forest by Alejandra Kamiya The Red Book of Farewells by Pirkko Saisio, translated by Mia Spangenberg, Pengu in International Writers (£14.99) Following Lowest Common Denominator and Backlight, this book completes Finnish author Saisio’s autofictional trilogy. It covers her young adulthood in the 1970s, where she comes out as lesbian (“The electricity doesn’t go out. The Ri… (alleges; supported) Source
  4. published: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:33 GMT (alleges; supported) Source