/College/translation/threepercent/2018/06/15/9-books-likely-to-win-the-2019-best-translated-book-award/ a resource for international literature at the URochester Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:32:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /College/translation/threepercent/2018/06/15/9-books-likely-to-win-the-2019-best-translated-book-award/#comment-2442 Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:32:43 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=401402#comment-2442 I like this book! I devoured it because I’m a sucker for novels that are both structurally interesting and contain some romance. The book tells the story of eight (or so) (sometimes) interrelated characters, skipping from one to another, building in both plot and theme. The main story is between a young woman trying (and failing) to write an article about how females are always wearing oversized men’s shirts when they’re presented as vulnerable in films (see: Lost in Translation) who has a whirlwind (failed) relationship with an author she happens, coincidentally, to meet right after fetishizing the author photo on the back of his book that she buys because he’s cute.
There’s definitely a series of statements to be made about human connections and internal life in relation to this book. And art. It’s al

]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2018/06/15/9-books-likely-to-win-the-2019-best-translated-book-award/#comment-1152 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 18:15:31 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=401402#comment-1152 […] And the books themselves are quite fun to read. Julio Cortázar appears as a character. P. J. Harvey is namechecked. Fragmented, non-linear (or, again, maybe the best word is actually “rhizomatic”), […]

]]> /College/translation/threepercent/2018/06/15/9-books-likely-to-win-the-2019-best-translated-book-award/#comment-502 Mon, 02 Jul 2018 19:11:33 +0000 http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/?p=401402#comment-502 good article admin thanks

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