{"id":304876,"date":"2016-11-02T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/11\/02\/goodreads-giveaway-for-radiant-terminus\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:22","slug":"goodreads-giveaway-for-radiant-terminus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/11\/02\/goodreads-giveaway-for-radiant-terminus\/","title":{"rendered":"GoodReads Giveaway for "Radiant Terminus""},"content":{"rendered":"

Part Jessica Jones<\/em>, part China Mi\u00e9ville, Radiant Terminus<\/em><\/a> (trans. by Jeffrey Zuckerman) is one of Antoine Volodine’s craziest, longest, and most compelling books to date. And you can win a copy simply by entering the GoodReads contest below.<\/p>\n

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The most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine\u2019s to be translated into English, Radiant Terminus<\/em> takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union. Most of humanity has been destroyed thanks to a number of nuclear meltdowns, but a few communes remain, including one run by Solovyei, a psychotic father with the ability to invade people\u2019s dreams\u2014including those of his daughters\u2014and torment them for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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When a group of damaged individuals seek safety from this nuclear winter in Solovyei\u2019s commune, a plot develops to overthrow him, end his reign of mental abuse, and restore humanity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Fantastical, unsettling, and occasionally funny, Radiant Terminus<\/em> is a key entry in Volodine\u2019s epic literary project that\u2014with its broad landscape, ambitious vision, and interlocking characters and ideas\u2014calls to mind the best of David Mitchell. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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