Lloyd-Jones is the translator of Warsaw Tales, a short-story anthology.
At the Guardian she tagged five of the best books translated from Polish, including:
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Jennifer CroftRead about the other books on the list.
The Nobel laureate’s historical epic fictionalises the life of Jacob Frank, the bizarre but influential self-proclaimed messiah whose dedicated worshippers followed him around 18th-century Europe. This visionary novel re-creates his world in vivid, sensual detail, and can be read on many levels: as a history book exploring the development of Europe’s religions and philosophies, as a scrapbook of esoteric arcana such as alchemy and the Kabbalah, or the story of a rebel and his bewitched associates.
--Marshal Zeringue