{"id":305626,"date":"2017-03-30T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2017\/03\/30\/chronicle-of-the-murdered-house-by-lucio-cardoso-why-this-book-should-win\/"},"modified":"2018-05-04T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:43:12","slug":"chronicle-of-the-murdered-house-by-lucio-cardoso-why-this-book-should-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2017\/03\/30\/chronicle-of-the-murdered-house-by-lucio-cardoso-why-this-book-should-win\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chronicle of the Murdered House&#8221; by L\u00facio Cardoso [Why This Book Should Win]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Between the announcement of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=18832\">Best Translated Book Award longlists<\/a> and the unveiling of the finalists, we will be covering all thirty-five titles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/tag\/why-this-book-should-win\/\">Why This Book Should Win<\/a> series. Enjoy learning about all the various titles selected by the fourteen fiction and poetry judges, and I hope you find a few to purchase and read!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>The entry below is by Mark Haber from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brazosbookstore.com\/\">Brazos Bookstore<\/a> in Houston, Texas. He is also the author of<\/i> Melville\u2019s Beard, <i>which is available in a bilingual edition from Editorial Argon\u00e1utica.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openletterbooks.org\/products\/chronicle-of-the-murdered-house\"><em>Chronicle of the Murdered House<\/em><\/a> by L\u00facio Cardoso, translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson (Brazil, Open Letter Books)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Chad\u2019s Uneducated and Unscientific Percentage Chance of Making the Shortlist: 88%<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Chad\u2019s Uneducated and Unscientific Percentage Chance of Winning the <span class=\"caps\">BTBA<\/span>: 20%<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever read a book and felt, without anyone telling you, that you were reading a classic, something indipsensable to a language and a culture? <em>Chronicle of the Murdered House<\/em> is such an example. This book has hints of Dostoyevsky, Garcia Marquez and Antonio Lobo Antunes. Already a classic in Brazil\u2014this book is not only beautifully written and profound, but a joy to read. The dysfunction of a prestigious family in a provincial Brazilian jungle, complete with gossip, backstabbing, cross-dressing and suicide. There\u2019s a fully-formed universe taking place in a run-down mansion rotting away in the jungle. Despite having the weight and breadth of a classic, its 600 pages fly by. I dare anyone to read it and not appreciate its artistry and breadth. The translation, by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson, is deft, peerless and worthy of the Best Translated Book Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between the announcement of the Best Translated Book Award longlists and the unveiling of the finalists, we will be covering all thirty-five titles in the Why This Book Should Win series. Enjoy learning about all the various titles selected by the fourteen fiction and poetry judges, and I hope you find a few to purchase [&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":[67476],"tags":[35996,64586,48766,64816,64826,13566,59576,28166,64836,37876],"class_list":["post-305626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-translated-book-awards","tag-btba","tag-btba-2017","tag-btba-fiction","tag-chronicle-of-the-murdered-house","tag-lucio-cardoso","tag-margaret-jull-costa","tag-mark-haber","tag-open-letter-books","tag-robin-patterson","tag-why-this-book-should-win"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305626","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=305626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396852,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305626\/revisions\/396852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}