{"id":269316,"date":"2009-03-13T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/03\/13\/some-buzz-for-the-conqueror\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:15","slug":"some-buzz-for-the-conqueror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/03\/13\/some-buzz-for-the-conqueror\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Buzz for The Conqueror"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my opinion, Jan Kjaerstad’s The Conqueror<\/em><\/a> is one of the best books we brought out in our first season. Compelling and engaging, with a brilliant over-arching structure, it’s a novel that’s very literary and very readable, and one that we were really hoping would take off. (Especially since this is part of a trilogy, and we’re bringing out the final part in the fall.)<\/p>\n

Well, although there haven’t been a ton of reviews (yet), we’ve been getting a lot of comments from readers and booksellers about this book. <\/p>\n

Karl Pohrt from Shaman Drum called me a while back to tell me how impressed he was with this novel. And since then, I’ve heard that one bookseller<\/a> wrote a staff pick about how The Conqueror<\/em> forced him to rewrite his “desert island” list. And just today we received a postcard from another New York store<\/a> about how The Conqueror<\/em> was a “amazing and wonderful reading experience.”<\/p>\n

Back a couple months ago, we gave away a few galleys of this book. And earlier this week I heard from one winner<\/a> about how effing good this book is . . . <\/p>\n

It is the second part of a trilogy—the first part is The Seducer<\/em>,<\/a> which came out from Overlook a couple years ago—but the books really do stand alone. If you’d like to know more about the first volume, Michael Orthofer has a really comprehensive review<\/a> at Complete Review. <\/p>\n

I’m mentioning all this now, because we’re in the process of preparing Jan’s U.S. tour. He will be in New York for PEN<\/span> World Voices, and in Rochester (with Mark Binelli, author of Sacco and Vanzetti Must Die!<\/em><\/a>), and possibly a few other places as well. I’ll post all the details as soon as they’re finalized.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, PEN<\/span> America has an excerpt<\/a> available online as part of their 2009 Translation Feature<\/a> page, which is worth checking out in its own right. <\/p>\n

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