Saturday, April 20, 2019

Celebrate World Book Day - an infrowrap for adults











9 FREE BOOKS TO CELEBRATE WORLD BOOK DAY




 Happy World Book Day!  Well, officially it's April 23, but I think here we practice it eery single day.  Amazon is celebrating with nine free ebooks, and they look amazing!  On their Read the World page, you can download books to read across the world, from Mexico to the Netherlands to Israel and beyond. 
These are all translated works.  I am going to download them myself and enjoy the diverse genres and author's talents.  They are free until April 24th, 2019, so don't delay!  







Murmur Of Bees
Authored by Sofia Segovia

Literary Fiction
Mexico

For fans of Isabel Allende, a beautifully captivating new release about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history.



Sofía Segovia (Author)

Sofía Segovia is a creative writer, authoring several plays and novels. Sofía likes to travel the world, but she loves coming home to her husband, three children, two dogs, and cat.



Simon Bruni (Translator)
Simon Bruni is a literary, academic, and general translator of Spanish texts. He has translated everything from video games to sixteenth-century Spanish Inquisition manuscripts to literary novels.





An American Princess 
by Annette van Der Zijl

Biography
Netherlands



The true story of a strong-willed woman born into a pioneering American family.

Annejet van der Zijl (Author)
Annejet van der Zijl is one of the best-known and most widely read literary nonfiction writers in the Netherlands. In 2012, she was awarded the Golden Quill for her entire oeuvre.

Michele Hutchison (Translator)
Michele Hutchison was born in the United Kingdom and has lived in Amsterdam since 2004. She translates literary fiction and nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, and children’s books.





All This I Will Give To You
Dolores Redondo

Mystery
Spain



An award-winning page-turner about the secrets and lies of one man that lead another into a family history of criminal deceit.


Dolores Redondo (Author)
A bestselling author twice nominated for the CWA International Dagger Award, Delores Redondo was the recipient of the 2016 Premio Planeta - one of Spain's most distinguished literary awards - for All This I Will Give to You.

Michael Meigs (Translator)
Michael Meigs reviews theater and translates literature from Spanish, Swedish, French, and German. He also served as a diplomat with the United States Department of State for more than thirty years.







The Hangman's Daughter
Oliver Pötzsch

Mystery
Germany


The start of the bestselling series about a Bavarian executioner and his clever daughter solving gruesome crimes in 1600s Germany.


Oliver Pötzsch (Author)
Oliver Pötzsch has worked for years as a scriptwriter for Bavarian television. He is a descendant of one of Bavaria’s leading dynasties of executioners. Pötzsch lives in Munich with his family.

Lee Chadeayne (Translator)
Lee Chadeayne was a former classical musician and college professor. He was one of the charter members of the American Literary Translators Association and served as editor-in-chief of the ALTA Newsletter.





About The Night
Anat Talshir

Historical Fiction
Israel


Anat Talshir (Author)
Anat Talshir has been one of Israel’s most dis­tinguished investigative journalists for over thirty years. In 2002 she was awarded the Nahum Sokolov Prize for best jour­nalism (the Israeli Pulitzer).


Evan Fallenberg (Translator)
Evan Fallenberg is a US-born, Israel-based writer and translator. His translations have been shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize and the Times Literary Supplement of London Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Translation of Hebrew Literature.





The Dark Heart
Joakim Palmkvist

True Crime
Sweden

A bestselling true crime story of poisonous family secrets, love gone wrong, and a cold case that refused to stay buried.


Joakim Palmkvist (Author)
Joakim Palmkvist worked for over two decades as a journalist and is one of Sweden’s most experienced and well-known crime reporters. Palmkvist lives in Malmö.

Agnes Broomé (Translator)
Agnes Broomé is a literary translator and preceptor in Scandinavian at Harvard University. She has a PhD in translation studies, and her translations include August Prize–winner The Expedition by Bea Uusma.





Go
Kazuki Kaneshiro


A sweet, edgy, and timely coming of age novel about the pains of first love and the struggle with discrimination.


Kazuki Kaneshiro (Author)
Kazuki Kaneshiro graduated from Keio University. In 2000, Kaneshiro won the Naoki Prize for GO, and the novel’s film adaptation went on to win every major award in Japan in 2002.


Takami Nieda (Translator)
Takami Nieda has trans­lated and edited more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction from Japanese into English and has received numerous grants in sup­port of her translations.





The Passion According To Carmela
Marcos Aguinis

Historical Fiction
Argentina



An epic love saga set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Cuban Revolution by one of Latin America’s most renowned authors.


Marcos Aguinis (Author)
Marcos Aguinis is the prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction, and was the first non-Spanish author to win the Planeta Prize.

Carolina De Robertis (Translator)
Carolina De Robertis is a writer, professor, and literary translator of Uruguayan origins. She teaches fiction and literary translation at San Francisco State University.







This Life Or The Next
Demian Vitanza


Literary Fiction
Norway


Inspired by real life, a groundbreaking novel of a man’s radicalization and ultimate disillusionment after fighting on the Syrian front lines.


Demian Vitanza (Author)
Demian Vitanza is an award-winning playwright and novelist who has conducted numer­ous writing workshops, including one for the inmates of Halden Prison in Norway. This Life or the Next is his third novel.

Tanya Thresher (Translator)
Tanya Thresher holds a PhD in Scandinavian Studies and Literary Theory from the University of Washington. She cur­rently lives in the United Arab Emirates with her family.



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FREE is always a wonderful thing so please skip on over to Amazon and download the books that you are interested in. Keep in mind that the FREE off ends April 24, 2019. 

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