{"id":13697,"date":"2018-06-26T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:36:18","slug":"world-cup-of-books-june-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2018\/06\/26\/world-cup-of-books-june-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup of Books: June 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, the Loyola Libraries are excited to bring you the World Cup of Books<\/strong>, an interactive program to encouraging reading books from other countries. Show your support for your favorite team by reading books from and about their country!
\nToday’s match-ups include Denmark v France, Australia v Peru, Nigeria v Argentina, and Iceland v Croatia <\/p>\n

Denmark:
\nBaboon by Naja Marie Aidt, translated by Denise Newman<\/strong>\"\"<\/p>\n

It takes some courage to open a book with a description of \u201can astonishing landscape,\u201d but Aidt begins with this implicit boast, confident that her work can take readers to places they\u2019ve never been. Capturing the importance in banality is Aidt\u2019s laudable aim here, and many of these stories demonstrate a poet\u2019s interest in turning a moment over and looking at it from all sides. \u2013Kirkus Review<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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France:
\nThe complete poetry of Aime\u0301 Ce\u0301saire by Aime\u0301 Ce\u0301saire, translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman<\/strong> <\/p>\n

The Complete Poetry of Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire gathers all of Cesaire\u2019s celebrated verse into one bilingual edition. To prepare the English translations, the translators started afresh from this French edition. Included here are translations of first editions of the poet\u2019s early work, prior to political interventions in the texts after 1955, revealing a new understanding of Cesaire\u2019s aesthetic and political trajectory. This book provides a new cornerstone for readers and scholars in 20th century poetry, African diasporic literature, and postcolonial studies. -Amazon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Australia:
\nWoman of the Inner Sea by Thomas Keneally<\/strong> \"\"<\/p>\n

The latest effort from Booker Prize-winning Australian author Keneally is one of his best. He sets it on native turf and uses glimpses of his homeland’s history, folkore and natural wonders to lift intriguing events to the level of riveting, sophisticated thriller. And as he brilliantly illustrates how the best-laid plans can go awry, he demonstrates that the true test of people is in how they cope with life’s major and minor catastrophes. \u2013Publisher\u2019s Weekly <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Peru:
\nLessons for a child who arrives late by Carlos Yushimito, translated by Valerie Miles<\/strong><\/p>\n

A mascot for an electronics store dreams of making it in the drug world of Rio de Janeiro. A tin man ponders the mysteries of death as a heart starts to take charge of his limbs, while in a place not so far away a boy tries to play the piano like Margarita, the teacher\u2019s cruel and beautiful niece. In stories filled with violence and tenderness, love and disconnection, Carlos Yushimito\u2019s long-anticipated debut explores the subtle space of estrangement \u2013Transit Books<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Nigeria:
\nTina shot me between the eyes : and other stories by Antoinette Tidjani Alou<\/strong> \"\"<\/p>\n

A grandmother with a food-induced encounter, an ecclesial romance with a tomcat set in the throes of uncertain times, eating and drinking for freedom, wife battery under the watchful eyes of communal love, desperately seeking lovers burdened by violent pasts, and a woman taking liberty after nine children with nine husbands are some of the characters and stories in Antoinette Tidjani Alou\u2019s debut fiction collection. In fifteen formidable lyrical prose, Tina Shot Me Between the Eyes explores how the self is shaped and transformed by the knots we yearn to tie around ourselves: familial, spousal, parental, and societal. \u2013Amalion Publishing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Argentina:
\nA beautiful young woman: a novel by Julia\u0301n Lo\u0301pez, translated by Samuel Rutter<\/strong><\/p>\n

The \u201cdisappeared\u201d\u2014those deemed left-wing enemies of the vicious military dictatorship that ruled Argentina during the 1970s and early ’80s\u2014still haunt the country\u2019s collective memory, especially the surviving family members who don\u2019t know what happened to their absent loved ones. This first novel by L\u00f3pez, a poet, actor, and director of the literary group Ciclo Carne Argentina, paints an intensely evocative portrait of one such missing person: a woman whose name is one of the few things her son doesn\u2019t disclose about her from the memories he carries from childhood. It’s been said that memory is a poet\u2014if so, this novel represents some of its most gorgeous and incandescent work. \u2013 Kirkus Review<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Iceland:
\nThe Blue Fox by Sjon, translated by Victoria Cribb<\/strong> \"\"<\/p>\n

Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. At the edge of the hunter’s territory, a naturalist struggles to build a life for his charge, a young woman with Down syndrome whom he had rescued from a shipwreck years before. By the end of Sj\u00f3n’s slender, spellbinding fable of a novel, none of their lives will be the same. The Blue Fox is part mystery, part fairy tale, and the perfect introduction to a mind-bending, world-class literary talent. -Amazon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Croatia:
\nHotel Tito by Ivana Simic\u0301 Bodroz\u030cic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac\u0301<\/strong> <\/p>\n

Drawing on her own family\u2019s experiences during Yugoslavia\u2019s struggle for independence in the 1990s, poet and fiction writer Bodro\u017eic creates a captivating tale that earned acclaim and literary awards when it was published in Europe. The story begins when the slyly observant narrator is suddenly is sent, with her older brother, from their home in Vukovar, on the Croatian-Serbian border, to the seashore. A few weeks later, the children\u2019s mother arrives, but their father remains in Vukovar to defend Croatia against the Serbs, a long siege that ends in the imprisonment\u2014and, the family later learns, the murder\u2014of 400 men, her father among them. The remaining family members become refugees, housed in one shabby room at the former Political School in Kumrovec, which they sardonically dub the Hotel Tito. Tragic history conveyed with honesty and candor. \u2013Kirkus Review <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Have you read any of these books, or a book from another country participating in the 2018 World Cup? Add a review of a book from a participating nation to our bracket here<\/a>! You can also fill out our quick form here<\/a>, and we’ll add your review to the bracket board. Your review may appear in a future blog post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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