{"id":9064,"date":"2013-04-10T10:14:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=9064"},"modified":"2013-04-10T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T14:14:32","slug":"best-translated-book-award-fiction-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2013\/04\/10\/best-translated-book-award-fiction-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Translated Book Award Fiction Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked! This is quite a leap from the list I expected! The winner will be selected from this list on May 3.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>The Planets<\/em><\/strong>, by Sergio Chejfec; Argentina; tr. from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Open Letter Books)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Prehistoric Times<\/em><\/strong>, by Eric Chevillard; France; tr. from the French by Alyson Waters (Archipelago Books)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Colonel<\/em><\/strong>, by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi; Iran; tr. from the Persian by Tom Patterdale (Melville House)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Satantango<\/em><\/strong>, by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai; Hungary; tr. from the Hugarian by George Szirtes (New Directions)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Autoportrait<\/em><\/strong>, by Edouard Lev\u00e9; France; tr. from the French by Lorin Stein (Dalkey Archive Press)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>A Breath of Life<\/em><\/strong>, by Clarice Lispector; Brazil; tr. from the Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz (New Directions)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Hunger Angel<\/em><\/strong>, by Herta M\u00fcller; Romania; tr. from the German by Philip Boehm (Metropolitan Books)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Maidenhair<\/em><\/strong>, by Mikhail Shishkin; Russia; tr. from the Russian by Marian Schwartz (Open Letter Books)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Transit<\/em><\/strong>, by Abdourahman A. Waberi; Djibouti; tr. from the French by David Ball and Nicole Ball (Indiana University Press)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>My Father\u2019s Book<\/em><\/strong>, by Urs Widmer; Switzerland; tr. from the German by Donal McLaughlin (Seagull Books)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No\u00a0<em>Dublinesque<\/em>? No\u00a0<em>My Struggle<\/em>? No\u00a0<em>Traveler of the Century<\/em>? No\u00a0<em>Map and the Territory<\/em>? Those were, I thought, certainties. But maybe that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re not there. They&#8217;re the books we&#8217;ve seen promoted all over the place. Still, I consider\u00a0<em>Dublinesque<\/em> and\u00a0<em>My Struggle<\/em> to be two of the most unique, strongest pieces of literature in some time. Not to cast a shadow on the finalists, several of which I have not read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked! This is quite a leap from the list I expected! The winner will be selected from this list on May 3. 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