{"id":21039,"date":"2017-05-04T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=21039"},"modified":"2017-06-16T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-17T02:11:07","slug":"the-2017-best-translated-book-award-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/05\/04\/the-2017-best-translated-book-award-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2017 Best Translated Book Award Winner!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Congratulations to this year’s Best Translated Book Award winner!<\/h1><\/div>

\"\"Chronicle of the Murdered House<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nby Lucio Cardoso<\/span>
\ntranslated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa<\/span>
\nBrazil<\/span><\/p>\n

Long considered one of the most important works of twentieth-century Brazilian literature, Chronicle of the Murdered House<\/em> is finally available in English.<\/p>\n

Set in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the novel relates the dissolution of a once proud patri\u00adarchal family that blames its ruin on the youngest son Valdo's marriage to Nina\u2014a vibrant, unpredictable, and incendiary young woman whose very existence seems to depend on the destruction of the household. This family's downfall, peppered by stories of decadence, adultery, incest, and madness, is related through a variety of narrative devices, including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters.<\/p>\n

Salacious, literary, and introspective, Cardoso's masterpiece marked a turning away from the social realism fashionable in 1930s Brazilian literature and had a huge impact on the writing of Cardoso's life-long friend and greatest admirer \u2014 Clarice Lispector.<\/p>\n

Find the ten-book strong shortlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Find the twenty-five book longlist here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"\"\n \n