Today’s post comes to you from Kimberly Wong Supersaurio by Meryem El Mehdati is a smart, searing, and painfully relatable workplace satire. Originally published in Spanish in 2022, its English edition was translated by Julia Sanches and released in November 2025. The novel, categorized as autofiction, follows Meryem through her internship in the corporate offices of … Continue reading #WITMonth: Supersaurio by Meryem El Mehdati
In a Nutshell: Quite an intense reading experience. The book is written in the third person, yet at times it feels like it is almost in the first person. None of the characters are given names, and only one place, Paris, France, is referred to. It talks of the after-effects of El Salvador’s Civil War, … Continue reading Day 4: 🇸🇻 Slash and Burn
And Other Stories is a small publishing house, publishing indie books translated into English. I decided to become a subscriber in 2019 and I also ordered a women-in-translation bundle. The women-in-translation bundle consisted of three books, one of them is Now and At the Hour of Our Death. This is a wonderful, life-affirming book. In … Continue reading Day 3: 🇵🇹 Now and at the Hour of Our Death
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