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Last week I had an extremely busy moment of socialising and attending literary events, even by my standards. It was great fun and didn&#;t result in a complete physical and mental collapse on Sunday &#; maybe I&#;m regaining a little bit of my extrovert bubbliness and stamina, which was so much part of my youth.
Monday 30th September was International Translation Day and I attended an event organised by English Pen at my old workplace Senate House, University of London, in Bloomsbury. There were some sobering reflections on what happens to translators&#; income when the so-called &#;day job&#; of commercial translation (which covers their living expenses and allows them to take on literary translation projects) disappears, as it is replaced by AI. Or why translators do not get paid for all the additional work they do in scouting, negotiating, promoting a translated book: &#;Nobody&#;s (officially) asking you to do that work, so why pay for it &#; although everybody wants you do th
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Death by Design
What i didn't like about this book was that i expected the majority of the things that unfolded in the end.
The plot twist wasn't that much of a shocker to be honest, the whole 'solution' to the crime was predictable, and if not, it wasn't that exciting. When i got to the end i wasn't on the edge of my seat, furiously reading, like you would expect to be with the endings of mystery/crime books.
I picked this book up on a whim in a bookstore because 1) the cover was pretty, 2) it was a mystery book, and 3) i was hoping we would get a more in-depth look at the turkish kultur. I liked the cultural element in it, certainly; i absolutely love Turkey, in fact, inom was in Istanbul for the most part of reading this book, so that was a really nice experience. Though this book did shed the light on social problems in Turkey as well as in other places, like the production of counterfeits, terrorism and gang activity, which i found really interesting, it d
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Barbara Nadel's gripping new Turkish crime novel tackles the treacherous and seedy underworld of Detroit's gang warfare. Inspectors Cetin Ikmen and Mehmet Suleyman from Istanbul are sent to a policing conference in Detroit, but little can prepare them for the corruption that lies at its heart. When Ezekial Goins, an elderly man of Turkish nedstigning approaches them to crack the long-unsolved murder of his son, a quiet trip takes a far more sinister turn. As they delve deeper into the case, the pair find themselves immersed in a terrifying world of inter-gang drug war and racial prejudice that puts them in mortal danger, and forces Ikmen to confront some demons of his own
Genre: Mystery
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