{"id":253906,"date":"2007-08-06T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-06T18:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/06\/this-weeks-pw-reviews\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:54","slug":"this-weeks-pw-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/06\/this-weeks-pw-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week's PW Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

The August 6th set of Publisher Weekly<\/i> fiction reviews are now online<\/a> and feature a couple of interesting books in translation. <\/p>\n

The first is Cries in the Drizzle<\/i> (which sounds like a translated title) by Yu Hua “depicts a family’s life in the Zhejiang province of Maoist China during the 1970s.” According to PW<\/i>, “The narrative flits between time and space to create the landscape of Sun Guanglin’s youth [. . .] Though the fractured structure has its disjointed moments, Barr’s translation perfectly captures the ebb and flow of a community on the brink of change.”<\/p>\n

Personally, I’m more interested in the review of Christian Oster’s The Unforeseen<\/i><\/a>, the review of which ends with this intriguing statement:<\/p>\n

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The result is a love story deeply informed by Beckett (complete with the narrator acquiring a limp like that of Molloy<\/i>‘s title character), where swells of feeling are tracked in sneezes as involuntary as love itself. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I thought A Cleaning Woman<\/i> was an excellent book—and movie (and not just because I have a crush on the leading actress)—and can’t wait to read this new title. Good to see that someone is still publishing quirky, funny French writers. There are a slew referenced in Warren Motte’s excellent Fables of the Novel<\/i>, although only a handful of the books he writes about have made it into English. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The August 6th set of Publisher Weekly fiction reviews are now online and feature a couple of interesting books in translation. The first is Cries in the Drizzle (which sounds like a translated title) by Yu Hua “depicts a family’s life in the Zhejiang province of Maoist China during the 1970s.” According to PW, “The […]<\/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":[3406,3386,3426,1906,1946,1646,3396,3416,3376],"class_list":["post-253906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-christian-oster","tag-cries-in-the-drizzle","tag-french-literature","tag-other-press","tag-publishers-weekly","tag-review","tag-the-unforeseen","tag-warren-motte","tag-yu-hua"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253906","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=253906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314556,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253906\/revisions\/314556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}