This September, Brookline Booksmith and City of Asylum Bookstore are hosting a virtual conversation between Scholastique Mukasonga and novelist Maaza Mengiste, as part of their Transnational Literature Series. Register for free here. Igifu, translated from the French by Jordan Stump,  is a collection of Scholastique Mukasonga’s autobiographical stories, which rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating […]

                We'd love for you to join us this Saturday, November 13 at 1PM EST for a virtual conversation between Hanne Ørstavik and Lisa Gozashti, hosted by Brookline Booksmith. They'll be discussing Ørstavik's novel The Pastor, translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. This event is part of […]

Join a virtual conversation between Will Chancellor, Ezra Goldstein and Philip Roughton celebrating his translation of Halldór Laxness's Salka Valka - a feminist coming-of-age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class, and a poetic window into the arrival of modernity in a tiny industrial town. The event is hosted by Community Bookstore […]

Join the Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith for an in-store event with Scholastique Mukasonga and translator Mark Polizzotti to celebrate the release of Kibogo. Longlisted for 2022 National Book Award, it's a masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature. The conversation will take place on September 29th, […]

Join Hanne Ørstavik and writer Nina MacLaughlin in conversation about Ørstavik's latest novel, Ti Amo. Hosted by the Brookline Booksmith, the event will take place at the bookshop on November 3rd, at 7pm EST. Hanne Ørstavik published the novel Cut in 1994 and embarked on a career that would make her one of the most remarkable and […]