10 novels in translation you should know

8. "On Elegance While Sleeping," by Emilio Lascano Tegui (translated from the Spanish by Idra Novey)

This is the first English translation of this provocative novel by Argentinian writer Emilio Lascano Tegui (who died in 1966.) "On Elegance While Sleeping" is a novel written as the diary of a French soldier, a man who is falling to pieces even as he longs for a more elegant world.

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