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#Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody Brutal! How does one reconcile with that? How do vou forgive? You can't. A great story!! Thank you @lizoksbooks.bskv.social for an incredible heartfelt translation! Thank you @yelenafurman.bsky.social and @olgaz.bsky.social for bringing #MyDreadfulBody to our attention!

RIP Annie Dillard "There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. ... Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading — that is a good life." - From The Writing Life

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.

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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" 👇

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Thank you to @paperpills10.bsky.social for hosting a group read of my translation of Egana Djabbarova's My Dreadful Body!

Paperpills 💊🇵🇸❤️@paperpills10.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Starting September 11th. 11 chapters in 11 days. Let's do this #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody give a like to join the group read! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/blog/

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 · 2mo ago

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...

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

#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."

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

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.

#MyDreadfulBody #Djabbarova26 Chapter 3: “Hair” “The main thing any little girl should do was marry and leave the parental home to the sounds of ‘Vagzaly.’ A daughter unable to make her parents happy with her marriage was considered a bad daughter” (23). youtu.be/R145B0epC5M?...

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

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

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

It's interesting that I was the lone child in our large family to wear glasses. That was why Bibi firmly decided the books were to blame, since I read too many of them. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

It turned out that the Earth had been poisoned to its very core after the decaying bodies of former colonizers managed to pass on their standards to the world, whereby everything blue was beautiful but brown was hideous. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

Starting September 11th. 11 chapters in 11 days. Let's do this #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody give a like to join the group read! readinganactofsharedsolitude.wordpress.com/blog/

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Starting September 11, 2026! 11 chapters in 11 days. Books we read in 2025: Let’s do this!

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In many situations, "it's finally allowed" had replaced the reproving "forbidden." #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

"Botox won't help you, too much has been affected." #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

And that's how my black eyebrows answered my question. ... They were now harbingers of tremendous misfortune, a red fare on the high seas. Someone who could interpret all this had finally appeared. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody

The skin reddened quickly after recognizing the bitterness of loss, as if it mourned each tiny hair. Twenty minutes later, new brows nad replaced the old, engraved on the skin like an ornament on a vase. #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody I had to laugh.😅

Did a resemblance of faces result in a resemblance of fates? Were there similar fates for the heroines of Nizami Ganjavi's poems? #Djabbarova26 #MyDreadfulBody www.chaiandconversation.com/persian-poet...

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My Dreadful Body #Djabbarova26 starts today!

My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova Shall we make it a slow read? Starting September 11th. 11 chapters in 11 days. Feel free to read at your own pace. It was obvious to me from childhood that if I…

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In small mountain settlements, the eyebrows were first and foremost in differentiating an innocent, unmarried young woman from a woman who had already married. - My Dreadful Body by Egana Djabbarova translated by Lisa C. Hayden @lizoksbooks.bsky.social #Djabbarova26 @paperpills10.bsky.social

Could it be the most important thing I’ve ever written? Could it be a theory explaining how Russians are simultaneously in a highly individualistic and an immerse, collective society? Yes and yes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ambient war: Stalingrad memory and Russian state-aligned Telegram networks in the war against Ukraine - Ian Garner, Hugh Garner, 2026

The idea of fighting World War II again has been an important feature of Russian state-aligned discourse about the ongoing war in Ukraine. This article examines...

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Sad to hear that Péter Nádas, one of the giants of modern Hungarian literature, has passed away. Embarrassingly for me, I still have his monumental (in size and stature) PARALLEL LIVES to read.

Greg Morosoff@gregmorosoff.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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“The bourgeoisie loves so-called “positive” types and novels with happy endings since they lull one into thinking that it is fine to simultaneously acquire capital and maintain one’s innocence, to be a beast and still be happy.” - Anton Chekhov, in a letter to A.S. Suvorin. (April 13, 1895)

From 'Autumn Sky' by Charles Simic The stars know everything, So we try to read their minds. As distant as they are, We choose to whisper in their presence. .

#Djabbarova26 #EganaDjabbarova #readinganactofsharedsolitude #paperpills💊 #booktwitter friends This read will take place on Bluesky on September 11th 📚🐦💙 Give a like to join the groupread!@lizoksbooks.bsky.social @yelenafurman.bsky.social @olgaz.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/Db8VWzh...