Her hands knew that Allah would transform any task they performed into a day in Paradise. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

Delighted to be bringing this haunting masterpiece into English. For fans of Death Stranding, Cormac McCarthy, and True Detective Season 1, this one will stay with you.

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 4mo ago

ICYMI: Picador has acquired Cadavers by Russian author Aleksei Polyarinov, translated by Marianna Suleymanova, an "eerie and unforgettable story about how we become desensitised to atrocity" 👇

@yelenafurman.bsky.social You were absolutely right about ‘Written on the Body’. I haven’t quite finished it yet but it is a wonderful, thrilling book. 👍

#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "All the words that were ever said to her had turned into huge, dry stones." "My body forgives no misdeeds. The only thing it can easily forget is pain."

#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "...the teacher's face crumpled like the quizzes we tossed in the wastebasket." The similes in this book are 💯

The right side of my neck was bent double and I couldn't straighten it out without myorelaxants. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody Instantly brought to mind this painting: Jeanne Hébuterne by Amedeo Modigliani.

Congratulations @lizoksbooks.bsky.social we've always LOVED your translations! #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody www.instagram.com/reel/DdU0xW8...

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Lisa C. Hayden@lizoksbooks.bsky.social · last wk.

Thank you to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for publishing my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body. Our work together and the book itself mean a lot to me so it's especially gratifying to hear that My Dreadful Body made the National Book Award's longlist for Translated Literature!

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New Vessel Press@newvesselpress.bsky.social · last wk.

MY DREADFUL BODY named to 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist! Congratulations Egana Djabbarova + @lizoksbooks.bsky.social for this dazzling novel about a young woman’s vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia. www.nationalbook.org/books/my-dre...

Thank you to @newvesselpress.bsky.social for publishing my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body. Our work together and the book itself mean a lot to me so it's especially gratifying to hear that My Dreadful Body made the National Book Award's longlist for Translated Literature!

New Vessel Press@newvesselpress.bsky.social · last wk.

MY DREADFUL BODY named to 2026 National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist! Congratulations Egana Djabbarova + @lizoksbooks.bsky.social for this dazzling novel about a young woman’s vexed coming of age in a traditional Azerbaijani community in Russia. www.nationalbook.org/books/my-dre...

The TV show apparently not as good as the audiobook, never mind the book @yelenafurman.bsky.social @olgaz.bsky.social #ForsyteSaga26

archivetvmusings@archivetvmusings.bsky.social · last wk.

Today, brickbats are thrown at the likes of Sherlock Holmes ("disappointing and unconvincing"), The Forsyte Saga ("stodgy") and Sandie Shaw ("about as sexy as a radish"). Sunday Mirror (15th September 1968)

After finishing the first 3 books with the #ForsyteSaga26 gang, I *needed* to know what happened to Soames and everyone so I threw myself into the next 3 novels from #TheForsyteSaga by John #Galsworthy… @lizoksbooks.bsky.social @yelenafurman.bsky.social @olgaz.bsky.social

Syutkin and his wife wrote a weekly cooking column for The Moscow Times until Russia banned it as “undesirable” in July 2024.

Culinary Historian Pavel Syutkin Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison Over Bucha Posts - The Moscow Times

A Moscow judge on Tuesday sentenced culinary historian and former Moscow Times columnist Pavel Syutkin to six years in prison on charges of spreading “fake news” about the Russian military.

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It's a beautiful morning, hints of the approaching fall weather. Perfect day to visit the bookstore and join us for tonight's author talk with @meduza.io author Aleksandr Gorbachev and his book about music

In an April letter, Syutkin, a longtime food columnist for The Moscow Times, describes the criminal case against him in his own words.

‘My Case Is Unquestionably Political’: Russian Culinary Historian Pavel Syutkin on His Prosecution - The Moscow Times

Opinion | Russian culinary historian Pavel Syutkin was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison over social media posts about alleged Russian atrocities in Bucha, Ukraine, during the opening weeks of ...

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The main and first point on each woman's list was, of course, dzhekhiz, a dowry gathered from childhood and consisting of gifts from relatives. Everyone, without exception, asked for the most beautiful sheets. pil- lowcases, and coverlets for their daughters, the future brides. #Djabbarova26

#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "All day long, the sound of her sewing machine, its pedal rhythmically hitting the floor, emerged from behind the closed door of her room." I found this chapter to be sad and beautiful. Women were silenced, constrained and diminished by the social order, but... 1.

#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody ...found resourcefulness of expression. Their work carried dignity, judgment, memory, affection, pride, even authorship. But again, sad that this "communication" had to be through domestic crafts deemed acceptable for women. 2.

#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody "...all her words were turned into deeds, into the food she cooked, the laundry, the sewing." 3.

Her words were shekarbura, thin kutaby pancakes with greens and cheese, 4 buglama meat stew, and chigirtma.' Whenever she wanted to say something, she prepared food. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

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#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 "Unlike my girlfriends and others around me, however, my glasses - like books - never betrayed me."

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Hair "...daughters were merely temporary inhabitants of the home and were nurtured for other families..."

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Hair "Outside the car window, the vast, expansive wintry steppe was as uniform as a sleeping woman's calm breath."

A little elegy for my aunt from the October issue of @theatlantic.com. I am immensely grateful to Walt Hunter for giving it space on the shelf. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

This is an interesting edition - the Russian-language original with an English-language introduction that uses untranslated Russian quotes from the novel. Intended, I think, for advanced Russian-language learners. In any case, hoping the novel is less ideological than I think it will be.

My eyes only lightened during moments of despair, as if suffering were a bleach, the price to be paid for the "beautiful." #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

In addition to th little eyes, there was also uzerlik', a plant that made a house a home. As soon as the last guest closed the door behind them, my mother would take out a generous bunch of uzerlik and burn it in a special vessel. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

The evil eve explained nearly any unhappiness in a home and was to blame for any calamity that came about. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

In the world where I grew up, gazes penetrated every little corner. The evil eye, the neighbors' eyes, the relatives' eyes, the random pedestrian's eyes, the unscrupulous men's eyes. the women's unhappy eyes. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

Life in the community was reminiscent of a reality show with constant video surveillance: no action, word, or undertaking went unnoticed. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody