Joumana Khatib
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1,079 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 4 Sep
Joumana Khatib’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's all I read.
Especially a single one.
Okay, so one of my best reading experiences was, no surprise, was a translated novel, translated from the Swedish.
This is The Colony by Annika Norlin.
It's a debut novel.
And the premise is actually pretty fascinating.
So our sort of avatar is this journalist who's totally burnt out.
She can't pick up the phone.
She's just like, she's beyond spent.
So she goes to the woods and observes this group of people living in the middle of nowhere.
She can't exactly figure out how they know each other.
She eventually becomes very entwined with them.
And I thought, this book, I was talking about this with a colleague and we both agreed this was the kind of book that was so well-drawn.
It was so unexpected.
Every single turn took me by surprise.
This is the kind of book that reminded me of why reading is exciting.
And I'm not even like I felt that kind of I made contact with that childlike sense of joy reading this book.
Oh, I mean, I love understanding like different ways that thoughts can be communicated or, you know, when you have access to different reference points or idioms, then it becomes totally mind expanding.
And I have such an affection for translators because they toil in invisibility.
And I think it's one of the hardest things to do.
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