My sincere thanks to Ahmad Amani, the Author of the book, for his kind permission to translate and share it.
I`ve found this little book thanks to a recommendation from a Goodreads friend. I did like it. Therefore I up and translated it into Lithuanian. Here`s the LT version of My Grandparents` Big Bang.
My sincere thanks to Ahmad Amani, the Author of the book, for his kind permission to translate and share it.
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I really am curious about it. Matter is, I have never come across a good literary translation into English. I mean translations from languages other than French or Spanish or German or Italian, in other words, one of the Big Five. Those might be OK, only I`m not quite sure, as I prefer reading either the source or translations into LT or RU or, at a pinch, PL.
Each and every piece of literature (bar perhaps some verse to be found on Translatorscafe Forums, and that`s not for sure) seems to be translated poorly or downright awfully. I mean Lithuanian and Russian literature, first and foremost, and some Polish things as well, but I have my doubts concerning Japanese tales. I cannot read Japanese, therefore I cannot be sure, yet Japanese tales translated into either LT or RU are beautiful, but the very same (?) tales translated into English seem to be different tales. I mean, the few I`ve managed to find online. So I do wonder... Is it just me that always stumbles upon poor English translations, or is it maybe that neither English nor American literary translators can translate? |
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