{"id":300616,"date":"2015-03-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2015\/03\/13\/latest-review-three-light-years-by-andrea-canobbio\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:35","slug":"latest-review-three-light-years-by-andrea-canobbio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2015\/03\/13\/latest-review-three-light-years-by-andrea-canobbio\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "Three-Light Years" by Andrea Canobbio"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews<\/a> section is by Tiffany Nichols on Andrea Cannobio’s Three Light-Years<\/em>, translated by Anne Milano Appel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.<\/p>\n

Friday the 13th! Go catch some black cats before the weekend!<\/p>\n

Here’s the beginning of Tiffany’s review:<\/p>\n

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I would like to pose the argument that it is rare for one to ever come across a truly passive protagonist in a novel. The protagonist (perhaps) of Three Light-Years<\/em>, Claudio Viberti, is just that\u2014a shy internist who lives in an apartment above his mother and below his ex-wife, and religiously eats boiled vegetables every day for lunch at the same cafe at the same table. Claudio spends over two years obsessing about Cecilia, a doctor and fellow colleague, until the day he is able to stutter out his profession of love for her, only to proceed in engaging with her in his car a safe distance from the hospital where they work. Following and\/or during this engagement (not clear), Claudio also stumbles into a relationship with Cecilia\u2019s sister, Silva, who shortly thereafter learns she is expecting. These ingredients and known plot “twists” are the makings of an episode of Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>, except with a passive protagonist as a stand-in for McDreamy. Disappointingly, no attempts were really made to make the characters compelling or interesting beyond those of our typical hour-long sitcoms located in hospitals in Seattle and Los Angeles. The only interesting twist was that this hospital is located in a suburb of a large Italian city, and with that comes the typical romantic stereotypes. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

For the rest of the review, go here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest addition to our Reviews section is by Tiffany Nichols on Andrea Cannobio’s Three Light-Years, translated by Anne Milano Appel and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Friday the 13th! Go catch some black cats before the weekend! Here’s the beginning of Tiffany’s review: I would like to pose the argument that it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67456],"tags":[59936,44786,17726,1976,14086,1646,59946,50476],"class_list":["post-300616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","tag-andrea-canobbio","tag-anne-milano-appel","tag-farrar-straus-and-giroux","tag-fsg","tag-italian-literature","tag-review","tag-three-light-years","tag-tiffany-nichols"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300616","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\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309486,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300616\/revisions\/309486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}