{"id":278956,"date":"2010-07-09T14:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T14:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2010\/07\/09\/because-cleveland-folks-have-enough-problems-more-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:31:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:31:57","slug":"because-cleveland-folks-have-enough-problems-more-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2010\/07\/09\/because-cleveland-folks-have-enough-problems-more-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Cleveland Folks Have Enough Problems . . . More World Cup!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/wordswithoutborders.org\/dispatches\/article\/world-lit-and-world-cup-round-up-or-around-the-world-in-32-or-so-books\/\">Words Without Borders,<\/a> Andy Tepper has a great post listing interesting books to read from all participating World Cup countries:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There are some interesting books, even more so perhaps this year because the Cup is being held in Africa for the first time. But I thought it might also be fun to use the idea of the World Cup, now in its final days, to kick off a discussion of some recent (or not-so-recent) books that might otherwise be overlooked. So I started thinking of a list of some of my favorite novels and collections from Argentina, Spain, Nigeria, Brazil . . . and on and on. Why did I do this? No special reason\u2014I thought it might be fun, lord knows books could use more attention these days, and I had some time on my hands at work. But then I ran into countries such as Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, not to mention Paraguay and North Korea. What was I to do? (It would\u2019ve been so much easier if Russia, Turkey, and the Czech Republic had qualified!)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His overall list is pretty solid: Ivan Vladislavic&#8217;s <em>Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked<\/em> for South Africa (a book that I read as the WC started and <span class=\"caps\">ABSOLUTELY<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">LOVED<\/span>), Geoff Dyer&#8217;s <em>Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi<\/em> for England, Jenny Erpenbeck\u2019s <em>The Book of Words<\/em> for Germany, Antonio Tabucchi\u2019s <em>Indian Nocturne<\/em> for Italy, Augusto Roa Bastos&#8217;s <em>I, the Supreme<\/em> for Paraguay, Alejandro Zambra\u2019s <em>The Private Lives of Trees<\/em> for Chile, and 26 other titles. <\/p>\n<p>This is a difficult list to come up with, but I&#8217;m sure readers have other interesting suggestions. (Personally, I&#8217;d replace the Ogawa with Kobo Abe&#8217;s <em>The Box Man<\/em> because it&#8217;s so Beckett and yet so singular.) If you have additions, suggestions, etc., etc., you should post them below, or on the <span class=\"caps\">WWB<\/span> blog. It would be fun to come up with a sort of short reading list of books from these countries . . . <\/p>\n<div class=\"ad_banner\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.openletterbooks.org\/authors\/12-pilch#mighty\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/255.jpg\"  \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Words Without Borders, Andy Tepper has a great post listing interesting books to read from all participating World Cup countries: There are some interesting books, even more so perhaps this year because the Cup is being held in Africa for the first time. But I thought it might also be fun to use [&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":[33786,146,33776],"class_list":["post-278956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-andy-tepper","tag-words-without-borders","tag-world-cup"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278956","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=278956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347896,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278956\/revisions\/347896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}