{"id":17882,"date":"2016-04-14T11:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=17882"},"modified":"2016-04-14T11:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T15:46:08","slug":"the-2016-man-booker-international-prize-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/04\/14\/the-2016-man-booker-international-prize-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 Man Booker International Prize Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/04\/14\/the-2016-man-booker-international-prize-shortlist\/&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-17882 gallery-columns-6 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" 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Vegetarian<\/strong><\/em> by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Four Books<\/strong><\/em> by Yan Lianke, translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Strangeness in My Mind<\/strong><\/em> by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Ekin Oklap<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Whole Life<\/strong><\/em> by Robert Seethaler, translated from the German by Charlotte Collins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read two of the six finalists, <em>The Vegetarian<\/em> and <em>A Whole Life<\/em>. I&#8217;d be happy if <em>The Vegetarian<\/em> won, but I was baffled at the inclusion of <em>A Whole Life<\/em> on the longlist, let alone the shortlist. I thought it incredibly week and by rote.<\/p>\n<p>We are talking about these books over on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/group\/show\/186163-the-mookse-and-the-gripes\">Goodreads forum<\/a>, so come join us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Man Booker International Prize shortlist has been announced. <a href=\"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2016\/04\/14\/the-2016-man-booker-international-prize-shortlist\"><u>Read the full post<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"libsyn-item-id":0,"libsyn-show-id":0,"libsyn-post-error":"","libsyn-post-error_post-type":"","libsyn-post-error_post-permissions":"","libsyn-post-error_api":"","playlist-podcast-url":"","libsyn-episode-thumbnail":"","libsyn-episode-widescreen_image":"","libsyn-episode-blog_image":"","libsyn-episode-background_image":"","libsyn-post-episode-category-selection":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_thumbnail":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_theme":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_height":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_width":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_placement":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_use_download_link_text":"","libsyn-post-episode-player_custom_color":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-explicit":"","libsyn-post-episode":"","libsyn-post-episode-update-id3":"","libsyn-post-episode-release-date":"","libsyn-post-episode-simple-download":"","libsyn-release-date":"","libsyn-post-update-release-date":"","libsyn-is_draft":"","libsyn-new-media-media":"","libsyn-post-episode-subtitle":"","libsyn-new-media-image":"","libsyn-post-episode-keywords":"","libsyn-post-itunes":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-season-number":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-type":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-title":"","libsyn-post-episode-itunes-episode-author":"","libsyn-destination-releases":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-enabled":"","libsyn-post-episode-advanced-destination-form-data-input-enabled":false,"libsyn-post-episode-premium_state":"","libsyn-episode-shortcode":"","libsyn-episode-embedurl":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[798],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-17882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Man-Booker-International-Prize.jpg?fit=624%2C351&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqqvZ-4Eq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17882"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17884,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17882\/revisions\/17884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17882"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}