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Sean Gasper Bye on place names
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Sean Gasper Bye on place names

Jess Jensen Mitchell
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Lara Norgaard
Aug 13, 2024
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The action of Did This Hand Kill? (Open Letter Books) largely takes places in Lviv, Ukraine, over several different time frames. In this bonus episode, Sean Gasper Bye adresses the city’s fascinating multicultural, multilingual history and how it impacted his Polish to English translation.

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