{"id":304856,"date":"2016-10-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2016\/10\/15\/goodreads-giveaway-for-justine\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:57:22","slug":"goodreads-giveaway-for-justine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2016\/10\/15\/goodreads-giveaway-for-justine\/","title":{"rendered":"GoodReads Giveaway for "Justine""},"content":{"rendered":"

From now until October 31st, any and all GoodReads users can enter to win a copy of Justine<\/em><\/a> by Iben Mondrup, translated from the Danish by Kerri Pierce:<\/p>\n

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Stylistically provocative, Justine tells the story of a young female artist whose life is upended when her house burns down with all of the artworks for her upcoming exhibit inside. With little time left to recreate every-thing she\u2019s lost, Justine embarks on a series of sexual escapades with a sort of doomed intensity that foreshadows the novel\u2019s final, dark twist.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Through flashbacks and fragmented memories, we see Justine as a student at the Art Academy first discovering the misogynistic order that rules the Danish art world, and later on as she constantly challenges its expectations\u2014both in the studio and in bed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A personal meditation on artistic identity, creative process, and the male-dominated art scene, the novel veers between the erotic and the savage, resulting in a spellbinding read from one of Denmark\u2019s edgiest contemporary feminist writers. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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