![]() ![]() ![]() Her mental state, though, was not so healthy, as I learned later. My mother was twenty-five, young and healthy. Not particularly long, nor particularly short, with the last contractions coming every five minutes. ![]() It’s likely that I was well positioned in my mother’s womb because the birth was normal. There are people who swear they remember their birth. How to communicate the nuanced differences of voice of the two protagonists, mother and daughter, as they alternate in telling their story? How to faithfully present the backdrop of the novel of Soviet-occupied Latvia with its often absurd, mind-numbing and destructive day-to-day in order to understand its impact on the protagonists and the development of the tragic events? Given the novel’s substantial biographical aspect, I felt a particular responsibility to render the many overwhelmingly sad moments in the narrative with the sensitivity they deserved. Nora Ikstena’s magnificient Soviet Milk was most worthy of my efforts as a translator in tackling its inherent challenges. ![]()
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This is the best Heather Wells book in the series. Meg Cabot (nacida como Meggin Patricia Cabot Bloomington, Indiana, 1 de febrero de 1967) es una escritora estadounidense de comedias románticas para jóvenes y adultos. To add to the chaos, Tania Trace, the woman who stole her ex-fiance, has moved her teen Rock Camp to Heather’s empty-for-the-summer residence hall! This time, it’s her new boss, the interim residence hall director. Heather Wells is back with yet another death in the college residence hall she works in. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Time, and Vanity Fair, and on public radio's This American Life. ![]() In addition, her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Esquire, and The Best American Short Stories, for which she has also been the guest editor. ![]() Curtis Sittenfeld is a novelist, writer, New York Times Bestselling author. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. Curtis Sittenfeld is a novelist, writer, New York Times Bestselling author. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice (Austen Project Book 4). Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Curtis Sittenfeld is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Rodham, Eligible, Prep, American Wife, and Sisterland, as well as the collection You Think It, I'll Say It. Eligible: A modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice (Austen Project Book 4) - Kindle edition by Sittenfeld, Curtis. Her books have been translated into thirty languages. 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