{"id":14790,"date":"2025-04-02T04:40:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T04:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=14790"},"modified":"2025-04-08T15:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T15:38:42","slug":"out-this-month-april-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=14790","title":{"rendered":"Out This Month: April"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:16% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"291\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cw_223_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14827 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cw_223_large.jpg 291w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/cw_223_large-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/zhang_04_25\/\">&#8220;Still Water&#8221; <\/a>by Zhang Ran, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (<em>Clarkesworld<\/em>, April 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:41px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/freire-640x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14794 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/freire-640x1024.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/freire-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/freire-768x1228.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/freire.jpg 938w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldeditions.org\/product\/carnival_of_atrocities\/\">A Carnival of Atrocities<\/a><\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span>by Natalia Garc\u00eda Freire, translated from the Spanish (Ecuador) by Victor Meadowcroft (World Editions, April 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Cocu\u00e1n, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory. This is where Mildred was born, and where everything she had\u2014her animals, her home, her lands\u2014was taken from her after her mother\u2019s death. Years later, a series of strange events, disappearances, and outbursts of collective delirium will force its residents to reckon with the legend of old Mildred. Once again, they will feel the shadow of death that has hung over the town ever since she was wronged. The voices of nine characters\u2014Mildred, Ezequiel, Agustina, Manzi, Carmen, V\u00edctor, Baltasar, Hermosina, and Filatelio\u2014tell us of the past and present of that doomed place and Mildred\u2019s fate. Natalia Garc\u00eda Freire\u2019s vivid language blurs the lines between dreams and reality and transports the reader to the hypnotic Andean universe of Ecuador.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/murata.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14851 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/murata.png 340w, https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/murata-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/groveatlantic.com\/book\/vanishing-world\/\">Vanishing World<\/a><\/em> by Sayaka Murata, translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove Press, April 15)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:16px\">From the author of the bestselling literary sensations\u00a0<em>Convenience Store Woman<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Earthlings<\/em>\u00a0comes a surprising and highly imaginative story set in a version of Japan where sex between married couples has vanished and all children are born by artificial insemination.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:53px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Still Water&#8221; by Zhang Ran, translated from the Chinese by Andy Dudak (Clarkesworld, April 1) A Carnival of Atrocities by Natalia Garc\u00eda Freire, translated from the Spanish (Ecuador) by Victor Meadowcroft (World Editions, April 1) Cocu\u00e1n, a desolate town nestled between the hot jungle and the frigid Andes, is about to slip away from memory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/?p=14790\" class=\"more-link themebutton\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103],"tags":[264,9,131,140,1567,1566,127,1568,1202,78],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14790"}],"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=14790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14853,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14790\/revisions\/14853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sfintranslation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}