{"id":266826,"date":"2008-12-10T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/12\/10\/canadian-literature-of-2008\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:27:30","slug":"canadian-literature-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/12\/10\/canadian-literature-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Literature of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Omnivoracious has a nice write-up about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnivoracious.com\/2008\/12\/5-best-books-ou.html\">5 Best Books Out of Canada This Year.<\/a> Sure, these aren&#8217;t necessarily translations, but they are international . . . and if there&#8217;s any English-speaking country whose literature receives less attention in the U.S. than books in translation, it&#8217;s Canada. (I&#8217;m embarrassed to admit this, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve read a book by a Canadian author this year.) <\/p>\n<p>Of the books listed &#8212; which include <em>Blackstrap Hawco<\/em> by Kenneth J. Harvey, <em>The Origin of Species<\/em> by Nino Ricci, <em>Through Black Spruce<\/em> by Joseph Boyden, and <em>Dark Days<\/em> by Kerry Pither &#8212; the one that sounds most interesting to me is <em>Cockroach<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Cockroach<\/em>: Lebanese immigrant Rawi Hage brings his Montreal community of outsiders to life through the tales of a thief&#8212;the self-described &#8220;cockroach&#8221; who lives off the scraps of the privileged&#8212;forced in to therapy after a public suicide attempt. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/subscribe\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/131.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omnivoracious has a nice write-up about the 5 Best Books Out of Canada This Year. Sure, these aren&#8217;t necessarily translations, but they are international . . . and if there&#8217;s any English-speaking country whose literature receives less attention in the U.S. than books in translation, it&#8217;s Canada. (I&#8217;m embarrassed to admit this, but I don&#8217;t [&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":[17666,1836,15636],"class_list":["post-266826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-canadian-literature","tag-cwp","tag-omnivoracious"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266826","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=266826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355506,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266826\/revisions\/355506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}