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PORTUGAL // The Translator’s Bride by Joao Reis Maybe it’s a little bit meta, but this slim Portuguese novel about a troubled translator will have you hooked. We join the nameless 30-something as he grapples with his wife leaving him, and spends time walking around his city, studying the characters around him and thinking up a

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