{"id":303,"date":"2016-12-29T11:01:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T09:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=303"},"modified":"2016-12-29T11:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-29T09:02:02","slug":"cockroaches-named-best-2016-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/cockroaches-named-best-2016-irish-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockroaches Named Best of 2016 by The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archipelagobooks.org\/book\/cockroaches\/\">Cockroaches<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>, translated from the French by <a href=\"https:\/\/archipelagobooks.org\/book_translator\/stump-jordan\/\">Jordan Stump<\/a>, have been named to a Best of 2016 list by\u00a0<em>The Irish Times<\/em>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Literary correspondent Eileen Battersby writes about\u00a0<em>Cockroaches\u00a0<\/em>that it\u2019s \u201c[b]eautifully written in graceful, lilting prose\u201d but is also \u201charrowing reading, made all the more shocking by the way life later went on, as if the genocide had never happened. Mukasonga\u2019s life remains dominated by her ghosts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can read the rest of the list <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/eileen-battersby-s-favourite-fiction-and-nonfiction-of-2016-1.2902829\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book Cockroaches\u00a0, translated from the French by Jordan Stump, have been named to a Best of 2016 list by\u00a0The Irish Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,34,35,10,54],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cockroaches Named Best of 2016 by The Irish Times - S. 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