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James Christian Brown
James Christian Brown
James Christian Brown, originally from Scotland, has lived in Romania since 1993 and teaches in the English Department of the University of Bucharest. His first book-length translation from Romanian to English was The Păltiniş Diary by Gabriel Liiceanu (2000). More recently he has translated Răzvan Petrescu’s collection of short stories Small Changes in Attitude (2011), the play Mihaela, The Tiger of Our Town by Gianina Cărbunariu (2016), the volume of philosophical talks About the World We Live In by Alexandru Dragomir (2017), and Doina Ruști’s novel The Book of Perilous Dishes (Neem Tree Press, forthcoming)
Books translated by James Christian Brown
The Book of Perilous Dishes
1798 Bucharest: The Book of Perilous Dishes is missing. The recipes in this book can bring about damaging sincerity, forgetfulness, the gift of prediction, or hysterical laughter. The only clue is a map left by the murdered Cuviosu Zăval… A magical, dark adventure through Romania, France and Germany. With real medieval recipes. France and Germany. With real medieval recipes.
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