{"id":304846,"date":"2016-10-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/10\/01\/goodreads-giveaways-for-the-brother-and-a-greater-music\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:23","slug":"goodreads-giveaways-for-the-brother-and-a-greater-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/10\/01\/goodreads-giveaways-for-the-brother-and-a-greater-music\/","title":{"rendered":"GoodReads Giveaways for "The Brother" and "A Greater Music""},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been some months since I posted about GoodReads Giveaways here on Three Percent, but since I recently scheduled ones for all of our forthcoming winter titles, I thought I’d invite everyone to enter into these drawings. <\/p>\n

Both of these giveaways—for The Brother<\/em> and for A Greater Music<\/i>—run from October 1st until October 15th, and you can throw your name into the virtual hat simply by clicking through the “Enter Giveaway” boxes below.<\/p>\n

First up, Rein Raud’s The Brother<\/em>,<\/a> translated from the Estonian by Adam Cullen:<\/p>\n

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Winner of the Eduard Vilde Literary Award<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Brother<\/em> opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of men\u2014men who recently cheated the stranger\u2019s supposed sister out of her inheritance and mother\u2019s estate. Resigned to giving up on her dreams and ambitions, Laila took this swindling in stride, something that Brother won\u2019t stand for. Soon after his arrival, fortunes change dramatically, enraging this group of powerful men, motivating them to get their revenge on Brother. Meanwhile, a rat-faced paralegal makes it his mission to discover Brother\u2019s true identity . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The first novel of Rein Raud\u2019s to appear in English, The Brother<\/em> is, in Raud\u2019s own words, a spaghetti western told in poetic prose, simultaneously paying tribute to both Clint Eastwood and Alessandro Baricco. With its well-drawn characters and quick moving plot, it takes on more mythic aspects, lightly touching on philosophical ideas of identity and the ruthless way the world is divided into winners and losers. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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