Visit the James B. Duke Library to view an exhibit of literary translations published by Open Letter, the University of Rochester’s nonprofit, literary translation press. Open Letter is one of only a handful of publishing houses dedicated to increasing access to world literature for English readers. Open Letter searches for works that are extraordinary and influential, works they hope will become the classics of tomorrow. Titles include:
- Death in spring : a novel
- A thousand morons
- The golden calf : a novel
- The future is not ours : new Latin American fiction
- The last days of my mother
- Everything happens as it does
- War, so much war
- Lodgings : selected poems, 1987-2010
- When we leave each other : selected poems
- High tide
- Ergo
- The elusive moth
- The cyclist conspiracy
- Landscape in concrete
- Children in reindeer woods
- Gasoline
- This is the garden
- Two or three years later : forty-nine digressions
- The book of happenstance
- Street of thieves
- A short tale of shame
- The mighty angel : a novel
- Scars
- Navidad & Matanza
- Karaoke culture : essays
- Rock, paper, scissors
Untranslatable words from other languages illustrated by Anjana Iyer.