{"id":301796,"date":"2015-07-01T16:24:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T16:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/07\/01\/quarterfinals-of-the-wwcol-and-beyond-womens-world-cup-of-literature\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:32","slug":"quarterfinals-of-the-wwcol-and-beyond-womens-world-cup-of-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/07\/01\/quarterfinals-of-the-wwcol-and-beyond-womens-world-cup-of-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarterfinals of the WWCOL and Beyond [Women&#39;s World Cup of Literature]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone following the tournament already knows, we&#8217;re down to the final six books:<\/p>\n<p>Australia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hachettebookgroup.com\/titles\/hannah-kent\/burial-rites\/9780316243926\/\"><em>Burial Rites<\/em><\/a> by Hannah Kent <\/p>\n<p>Cameroon: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/product\/Dark-Heart-of-the-Night%2C674758.aspx\"><em>Dark Heart of the Night<\/em><\/a> by L\u00e9onora Miano, translated from the French by Tamsin Black<\/p>\n<p>Canada: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/6113\/oryx-and-crake-by-margaret-atwood\/\"><em>Oryx and Crake<\/em><\/a> by Margaret Atwood<\/p>\n<p>Colombia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/140634\/delirium-by-laura-restrepo\/\"><em>Delirium<\/em><\/a> by Laura Restrepo, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer<\/p>\n<p>Costa Rica: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nupress.northwestern.edu\/content\/assault-paradise\"><em>Assault on Paradise<\/em><\/a> by Tatiana Lobo, translated from the Spanish by Asa Zatz<\/p>\n<p>Germany: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europaeditions.com\/book.php?Id=114\"><em>The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine<\/em><\/a> by Alina Bronsky, translated from the German by Tim Mohr<\/p>\n<p>Which, after re-ranking the teams based on goal differential from their first two wins, results in this bracket:<\/p>\n<p><txp_thumbnail id=\"11732\" poplink=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, we have five matches left . . . the two quarterfinals matches, two semis, and the championship. <\/p>\n<p>These last rounds will kick off tomorrow and will run like this:<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 2nd Quarterfinal #1: <em>Assault on Paradise<\/em> (Costa Rica) vs. <em>Delirium<\/em> (Colombia)<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 3rd Quarterfinal #2: <em>Burial Rites<\/em> (Australia) vs. <em>Dark Heart of the Night<\/em> (Cameroon)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, July 7th Semifinal #1: <em>Assault\/Delirium<\/em> vs. <em>The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine<\/em> (Germany)<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, July 8th Semifinal #2: <em>Burial\/Dark Heart<\/em> vs. <em>Oryx &amp; Crake<\/em> (Canada)<\/p>\n<p>Friday, July 10th Championship: <em>Assault\/Delirium\/Hottest Dishes<\/em> vs. _Burial\/Dark Heart\/Oryx) <\/p>\n<p>So come back tomorrow to find out who will be going up against Alina Bronsky, the German juggernaut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As anyone following the tournament already knows, we&#8217;re down to the final six books: Australia: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent Cameroon: Dark Heart of the Night by L\u00e9onora Miano, translated from the French by Tamsin Black Canada: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood Colombia: Delirium by Laura Restrepo, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[61246],"class_list":["post-301796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-wwcol"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301796","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\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336066,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301796\/revisions\/336066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}