{"id":298766,"date":"2014-07-25T14:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2014\/07\/25\/july-newsletter-with-special-subscription-offer\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:12:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:12:35","slug":"july-newsletter-with-special-subscription-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2014\/07\/25\/july-newsletter-with-special-subscription-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"July Newsletter (With Special Subscription Offer!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t already subscribe to our (sporadic, but in good times, bi-weekly) newsletter, you can do so by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n

And if you missed the one that went out earlier this week, you can see the prettified version here,<\/a> or just read it all below.<\/p>\n

The Last Days of My Mother<\/em> \u201cPick of the Week\u201d in Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

In almost every issue of Publishers Weekly<\/i>\u2014the trade magazine for booksellers, publishers, agents, and authors\u2014the editors select one title to promote as the \u201cPick of the Week.\u201d It\u2019s usually something predictably large and respectable (like the new David Mitchell book, for example), but in the July 14th issue it was Open Letter\u2019s The Last Days of My Mother<\/em><\/a> by Icelandic author S\u00f6lvi Bj\u00f6rn Sirgdsson!<\/p>\n

The \u201cstarred\u201d review,<\/a> subtitled \u201cGoodbye to All That,\u201d had this to say:<\/p>\n

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The setup: Hermann\u2019s girlfriend of seven years leaves him for a French dentist, then his native Iceland\u2019s banking system goes belly-up, and finally his 63-year-old mother, Eva, is diagnosed with a rare and terminal cancer. The punch line: a bitterly laugh-out-loud novel of Nordic misery. [. . .] Sigurdsson\u2019s novel successfully straddles the line between impious gallows humor and a heartfelt depiction of a son\u2019s love for his mother.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Because we switched distributors this summer to Consortium (sorry, bit of inside baseball, but this is a really good thing for Open Letter), we ended up releasing this a couple months early, so your local indie bookseller should have copies, as does your favorite online retailer. Or, you can always order it directly from our website<\/a> either as a single book, or as part of a subscription<\/a> . . .<\/p>\n

Special Subscription Offer<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

With the official publication date of The Last Days of My Mother<\/em> coming up in August\u2014and to celebrate the high praise it’s already receiving\u2014if you take out a (or renew your existing) 12-month subscription before the end of August,<\/a> we’ll throw in two extra books for free. So: Over about the next 14 months, you’ll receive a big 12 Open Letter titles for the same low price of $100\u2014and that even includes free shipping within the U.S.. <\/p>\n

This is the cheapest and best way to keep up with what\u2019s going on in international literature. By signing up now, you\u2019ll not only get The Last Days of My Mother<\/em>, but also great titles like A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction<\/em> (probably the prettiest and most impressive book we\u2019ve ever published), a thrilling new book from Mathias \u00c9nard (the author of Zone<\/em>,<\/a> our first book to sell-out in just over a month), and The Man Between<\/em>, a unique, intelligent, moving collection of pieces honoring the life and activism of one of the greatest translators of all time, Michael Henry Heim.<\/p>\n

Again: Subscribe before August 31st<\/a> and you\u2019ll get 12 books, instead of the usual 10, for $100 even.<\/p>\n

World Cup of Literature<\/b><\/center><\/p>\n

The In case you missed it, this past month Three Percent hosted the first ever World Cup of Literature,<\/a> which pitted a recent book from each of the 32 countries that qualified for this year\u2019s Real World Cup in a head-to-head knockout tournament. <\/p>\n

Each match was written up by a reader or reviewer or translator or bookseller explaining why one of the two titles beat the other\u2014and by what score. The pieces are incredibly fun to read and can help guide you to interesting books from all of the various World Cup counties. <\/p>\n

In the end it came down to four literary powerhouses: Chile (represented by Roberto Bola\u00f1o\u2019s By Night in Chile<\/em>), Germany (W. G. Sebald\u2019s Austerlitz<\/em>), Mexico (Valeria Luiselli\u2019s Faces in the Crowd<\/em>), and the United States (David Foster Wallace\u2019s The Pale King<\/em>). <\/p>\n

If you want to find out who won, you\u2019ll have to click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

(We have to keep up the suspense somehow!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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