Word: karenina
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...wear those pants all year, you probably won’t wear them next year either; that’s how weight gain works. The same goes for books. Stop living in a fantasy, realize that the Sparknotes version is all you’ll ever read of Anna Karenina, and move...
...counting Irish or British. If you're having trouble, there's a good reason - you probably haven't encountered many. Translations of foreign-language works make up a mere 3% to 5% of the books published in the U.S. annually, and that includes new editions of classics like Anna Karenina. Except for a few recent breakouts - Roberto Bolaño, Stieg Larsson, Per Petterson - translated authors tend to deliver anemic sales, which makes mainstream American publishers loath to gamble on them. And Bolaño and Larsson were dead (both prematurely, at the age of 50) by the time their books...