{"product_id":"absinthe-megan-berkobien-9781607855149","title":"Absinthe: World Literature in Translation: Vol. 25: Barings \/\/ Bearings: Contemporary Women's Writing in Catalan","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Megan Berkobien and María Cristina Hall, \u003ci\u003eBarings \/\/ Bearings \u003c\/i\u003ecollects sixteen pieces of contemporary women's writing in Catalan together with the brilliantly understated illustrations of the artist Elisa Monsó.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis special issue of \u003ci\u003eAbsinthe\u003c\/i\u003e witnesses a living, Catalan language through the emotional labor of translation. It is also a testament to the thriving worlds of women's writing in Catalan, with time-travelling fiction by Bel Olid (tr. Bethan Cunningham), regrets on pregnancy sublimated into an airborne taxi ride in a story by Tina Vallès (tr. Jennifer Arnold), Mireia Vidal-Conte's poetry reflecting on Virginia Woolf's suicide (tr. María Cristina Hall), a story of revenge on an abusive elderly woman by Anna Maria Villalonga (tr. Natasha Tanna), as well as reflections on war, bookstores, and generational conflict in post-Franco Spain. These often surreal pieces of Catalan fiction are informed by several essays and works of literary memoir, including those by Marta Rojals (tr. Alicia Meier) on the state of the Catalan language and Najat El Hachmi (tr. Julia Sanches) on the conditions of growing up in Catalonia as the daughter of Moroccan parents. These latter pieces resist and explore the contours of multilingualism, highlighting the intra- and interlingual reality of spoken Catalan alongside Spanish and Amazigh. \u003ci\u003eBarings \/\/ Bearings\u003c\/i\u003e invokes the feeling of a people through the work of a new generation of translators.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Berkobien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1607855143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781607855149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Michigan Publishing Services\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Megan Berkobien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48217484263679,"sku":"9781607855149","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f18fae45-a020-4433-b688-f863d9110252.jpg?v=1771997521","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/absinthe-megan-berkobien-9781607855149","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}