“Parra Pods” is City of Parramatta Libraries newest, most innovative voice. We will be reviewing books, DVD’s, documentaries, magazines and music. Feature staff pics, award winning books, special events, author interviews, guest speakers discussing topics of interest to our Library members. Keep you informed about all things books, DVD’s, music, reading and libraries. And have some fun along the way. Hope you can join us!
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“Parra Pods” is City of Parramatta Libraries newest, most innovative voice. We will be reviewing books, DVD’s, documentaries, magazines and music. Feature staff pics, award winning books, special events, author interviews, guest speakers discussing topics of interest to our Library members. Keep you informed about all things books, DVD’s, music, reading and libraries. And have some fun along the way. Hope you can join us!
In this episode of Parra Pods Yan shares her love of translated literature with listeners.
Yan is City of Parramatta Libraries resident expert on translated literature and always manages to surprise us with the diverse range of books she gets through!
Below are just a few of the authors & titles Yan talks about in this podcast.
Happy Listening!
‘Shadow of the Wind’, ‘The Angels Game’, ‘The Prisoner of Heaven’ & ‘The Labyrinth of Sprits’ by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Along the Trenches: a Journey Through Eastern Europe to Isfahan by Navid Kermani
‘The Name of the Rose’, ‘Foucault’s Pendulum’ & ‘On the Shoulders of Giants’ by Umberto Eco
‘Sapiens’, ‘Home Deus’ & ‘21 lessons for 21st Century’ by Yuval Noah Harari
‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ & Farewell Waltz by Milan Kundera
‘Norwegian Wood’ & Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
‘Red Sorghum’, ‘The Garlic Ballads’ & ‘Sandalwood Death’ by Mo Yan
‘Boyhood’, ‘Youth’, ‘Summertime’, ‘Disgrace’, ‘Life & times of Michael K’ by J M Coetzee
Jo Nesbo, Stieg Larsson, Karan Fossum, Arnaldur Indridason, Hakan Nesser, Leila Slimani, Andrea Camilleri
Parra Pods
“Parra Pods” is City of Parramatta Libraries newest, most innovative voice. We will be reviewing books, DVD’s, documentaries, magazines and music. Feature staff pics, award winning books, special events, author interviews, guest speakers discussing topics of interest to our Library members. Keep you informed about all things books, DVD’s, music, reading and libraries. And have some fun along the way. Hope you can join us!
