{"id":293926,"date":"2013-04-30T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2013\/04\/30\/latest-review-mundo-cruel-by-luis-negron\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:45","slug":"latest-review-mundo-cruel-by-luis-negron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2013\/04\/30\/latest-review-mundo-cruel-by-luis-negron\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "Mundo Cruel" by Luis Negr\u00f3n"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is by Camila Santos on Mundo Cruel<\/em> by Luis Negr\u00f3n, from Seven Stories Press.<\/p>\n

Camila is a Brazilian translator, and has written for Three Percent before\u2014way back in 2010. Here’s a bit of her review:<\/p>\n

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Luis Negr\u00f3n\u2019s debut collection Mundo Cruel<\/em> is a journey through Puerto Rico\u2019s gay world. Published in 2010, the book is already in its fifth Spanish edition. Here in the U.S., the collection has been published by Seven Stories Press and translated from the Spanish by Suzanne Jill Levine, winner of the 2012 PEN<\/span> Center USA<\/span> Literary Award.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Negr\u00f3n lives in Puerto Rico and works as a bookseller, and is also coeditor of an anthology of queer writing from Puerto Rico. Other than the recently translated Mundo Cruel<\/em>, his only other work in English is the essay \u201cThe Pain of Reading,\u201d which appeared in the Sunday Review of the New York Times<\/em>, and was also translated by Levine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The characters in Mundo Cruel<\/em> constantly face prejudice, heartbreak, poverty, gossip, and death. Is the fictional world in Luis Negr\u00f3n\u2019s stories cruel? Most certainly. But Mundo Cruel<\/em> is peopled by resilient, funny, and surprisingly optimistic characters. The book consists of nine tightly constructed stories mostly set in Santurce, a neighborhood in the outskirts of San Juan. What\u2019s truly surprising in Mundo Cruel<\/em> isn\u2019t the queer themes it explores, but the degree of narrative control and skill present in Negr\u00f3n\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the complete review, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest addition to our Reviews Section is by Camila Santos on Mundo Cruel by Luis Negr\u00f3n, from Seven Stories Press. Camila is a Brazilian translator, and has written for Three Percent before\u2014way back in 2010. Here’s a bit of her review: Luis Negr\u00f3n\u2019s debut collection Mundo Cruel is a journey through Puerto Rico\u2019s gay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[51376,51366,51356,44956,1646,46066,19526],"class_list":["post-293926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-camila-santos","tag-luis-negron","tag-mundo-cruel","tag-puerto-rican-literature","tag-review","tag-seven-stories-press","tag-suzanne-jill-levine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310686,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293926\/revisions\/310686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}