{"id":10172,"date":"2021-01-28T04:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T04:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10172"},"modified":"2021-04-20T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T13:56:23","slug":"clelia-farriss-creative-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10172","title":{"rendered":"Clelia Farris&#8217;s Creative Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/farris.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"251\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Award-winning Italian author <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/rosarium.bookstore.ipgbook.com\/creative-surgery-products-9781732638839.php\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Clelia Farris&#8217;s collection, <em>Creative Surgery <\/em><\/span><\/a>(translated from the Italian by myself and Jennifer Delare) came out a few months ago from Rosarium Publishing and is getting some much-deserved attention (I know, I&#8217;m biased! But really, her work is fantastic). Here are links to four reviews:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/978-1-73263-883-9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> starred review<\/span><\/a>: &#8220;Farris has the gift of making her wildly imaginative worlds feel fully lived-in. Readers of literary science fiction will devour this collection.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/strangehorizons.com\/non-fiction\/reviews\/creative-surgery-by-clelia-farris-translated-by-rachel-s-cordasco-and-jennifer-delare\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Nicole Beck&#8217;s review on <em>Strange Horizons<\/em><\/span><\/a>: &#8220;To read these stories is to engage in deduction, to exercise both the brain and the imagination, and to be transported to intensely imagined settings as a result.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/2021\/01\/karen-burnham-reviews-creative-surgery-by-clelia-farris\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Karen Burnham&#8217;s review in <em>Locus<\/em><\/span><\/a>: &#8220;<em>Creative Surgery<\/em> is Italian author Clelia Far\u00adris\u2018s debut collection [in English]&#8230;and it\u2019s a great start.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/reading1000lives.com\/2021\/03\/01\/creative-surgery\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Daniel Haeusser, <\/span><\/a><em><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/reading1000lives.com\/2021\/03\/01\/creative-surgery\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reading 1000 Lives<\/span><\/a>:<\/em> &#8220;<em>Creative Surgery<\/em> by Clelia Farris may be a slim volume, but the collection of seven short stories packs a density and intensity that demands vigilant attention and careful reading. But, that requirement for focus will be greatly rewarded: with profound and provocative insights into her characters, wonderment at the speculatively imaginative worlds she paints, and dazzlement at the literary finesse she employs to accomplish it all.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scifimind.com\/creative-surgery-by-clelia-farris\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">John Folk-Williams, <em>SciFi Mind<\/em><\/span><\/a>: &#8220;Little did I know for about half the book that I had landed in the mind of Clelia Farris. Her bizarre characters and settings seem at first impossible, off the wall. But slowly I sank into each of the stories in this amazing collection, translated beautifully by Rachel Cordasco and Jennifer Delare, and gradually fitted myself into their strange reality. Now I\u2019m hoping more of her unique work will soon find its way into English translations.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Award-winning Italian author Clelia Farris&#8217;s collection, Creative Surgery (translated from the Italian by myself and Jennifer Delare) came out a few months ago from Rosarium Publishing and is getting some much-deserved attention (I know, I&#8217;m biased! But really, her work is fantastic). Here are links to four reviews: &nbsp; &nbsp; Publishers Weekly starred<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=10172\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,46],"tags":[452,133,90,1067,181,467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10398,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions\/10398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}