{"id":257486,"date":"2007-11-06T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T15:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/11\/06\/i-cant-believe-its-that-time-already\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:13","slug":"i-cant-believe-its-that-time-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/11\/06\/i-cant-believe-its-that-time-already\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#39;t Believe It&#39;s That Time Already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/article\/CA6496987.html?nid=3335\">PW<\/a> has their list of the Best Books of 2008 online already. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a huge list, but the fiction section includes some real gems. My personal favorites are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>The Savage Detectives<\/i> by Roberto Bola\u00f1o (Farrar, Straus &#038; Giroux)<br \/>\nChilean-born novelist Bola\u00f1o (1953\u20132003), beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, deliriously tracks Mexico City poets Arturo Belano (Bola\u00f1o&#8217;s alter ego) and Ulysses Lima as they travel the globe over 20-plus years. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Remainder<\/i> by Tom McCarthy (Vintage)<br \/>\nIn McCarthy&#8217;s haunting fiction debut, a semi-amnesiac London everyman uses newfound wealth to re-enact his memories in exacting detail.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>White Walls: Collected Stories<\/i> by Tatyana Tolstaya (<span class=\"caps\">NYRB<\/span>)<br \/>\nBeautiful, imaginative and disconcerting, the Russia of Tolstoy&#8217;s great-grandniece is a labyrinth of eras, treasures and horrors: past and present, shabby and brutal, magical and otherworldly.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for year-end lists (especially those on VH1), but I always have such a hard time coming up with these. If I were to make one for 2008 works of literature in translation, I&#8217;d definitely include the Bolano, Fogwill&#8217;s <i>Malvinas Requiem<\/i>, and Enrique Vila-Matas&#8217;s <i>Montano&#8217;s Malady<\/i>. That&#8217;s all I can think of right now . . . Anyone else have any good suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But PW has their list of the Best Books of 2008 online already. It&#8217;s a huge list, but the fiction section includes some real gems. My personal favorites are: The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bola\u00f1o (Farrar, Straus &#038; Giroux) Chilean-born novelist Bola\u00f1o (1953\u20132003), beautifully translated by Natasha Wimmer, deliriously tracks Mexico City poets Arturo Belano [&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":[7756,1836,1946],"class_list":["post-257486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-best-books-of-the-year","tag-cwp","tag-publishers-weekly"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257486","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=257486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361266,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257486\/revisions\/361266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}