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In this episode of Parra Pods Yan shares her love of translated literature with listeners. Yan is City of Parramatta Libraries resident expert on translated literature and always manages to surprise us with the diverse range of books she gets through! Below are just a few of the authors & titles Yan talks about in this podcast. Happy Listening!   ‘Shadow of the Wind’, ‘The Angels Game’, ‘The Prisoner of Heaven’ & ‘The Labyrinth of Sprits’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Along the Trenches: a Journey Through Eastern Europe to Isfahan by Navid Kermani ‘The Name of the Rose’, ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’ & ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’ by Umberto Eco ‘Sapiens’, ‘Home Deus’ & ‘21 lessons for 21st Century’ by Yuval Noah Harari ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ & Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera ‘Norwegian Wood’ & Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami ‘Red Sorghum’, ‘The Garlic Ballads’ & ‘Sandalwood Death’ by Mo Yan ‘Boyhood’, ‘Youth’, ‘Summertime’, ‘Disgrace’, ‘Life & times of Michael K’ by J M Coetzee Jo Nesbo, Stieg Larsson, Karan Fossum, Arnaldur Indridason, Hakan Nesser, Leila Slimani, Andrea Camilleri