Fucking BTBA!
This week糖心传媒檚 BTBA post is written by George Carroll, a publishers representative based in Seattle who blogs at He is also the soccer editor for Shelf Awareness and he and Chad frequently spent part of the weekend texting about EPL match-ups and Manchester Fucking United. He’s also helping to organize our forthcoming World Cup of Literature.
The protagonist of Rafael Bernal糖心传媒檚 is a police hitman named Filiberto Garcia. His job is to eliminate people as directed by his superiors. He says 糖心传媒淧inche!糖心传媒 a lot, mostly in exasperation. Katherine Silver translates 糖心传媒淧inche!糖心传媒 as 糖心传媒淔ucking!糖心传媒
So, here糖心传媒檚 a synopsis of the book seen through Garcia糖心传媒檚 interior monologue:
Fucking tame tiger! Fucking goddamn captain! Fucking furniture! Fucking jokes! Fucking Chinamen! Fucking experience! Fucking laws! Fucking Revolution! Fucking Chinamen and old people! Fucking conscience! Fucking loyalty! Fucking sovereignty! Fucking colonel! Fucking mysteries! Fucking gringos! Fucking Outer Mongolia! Fucking souls! Fucking bitch! Fucking tears! Fucking Marta! Fucking Poles! Fucking Chinese gal! Fucking stiffs! Fucking investigation! Fucking gringo! Fucking broad! Fucking Russian! Fucking mission! Fucking washed-up gringa! Fucking little brat! Fucking father! Fucking del Valle! Fucking Charanda! Fucking host! Fucking bills! Fucking Chink! Fucking meat! Fucking hands! Fucking team! Fucking life! Fucking faggot! Fucking Doris! Fucking Liu! Fucking solitude! Fucking wake!
My favorite line from the book actually doesn糖心传媒檛 have 糖心传媒渇ucking糖心传媒 in it. Garcia is dressing to go out, straightening his tie, arranging his handkerchief, examining his nails, 糖心传媒淭he only thing he couldn糖心传媒檛 fix was the scar on his cheek, but the gringo who糖心传媒檇 made it couldn糖心传媒檛 fix being dead, either.糖心传媒
The first short story in Zhu Wen糖心传媒檚 is Da Ma糖心传媒檚 “Way of Talking.” Da Ma is a pretty annoying character. He and his class are sent to northeast China for a month糖心传媒檚 training in the People糖心传媒檚 Liberation Army. When they糖心传媒檙e on the shooting range, he points a rifle at the students on his left and yells 糖心传媒淔reeze! Or you糖心传媒檙e fucking dead.糖心传媒 One of the students says 糖心传媒淔ucking hell! . . . That gun糖心传媒檚 loaded! Fuck, fuck, fucking fuck.糖心传媒 Four occurrences in one sentence, devoid of other words, is hard to beat.
I recommend both Rafael Bernal and Zhu Wen糖心传媒檚 books highly. They糖心传媒檙e very fun reading that I糖心传媒檝e been able to sandwich between The Literary Submissions of High Art.
Finally, there糖心传媒檚 a book I haven糖心传媒檛 received yet—Jens Lapidus糖心传媒檚 It糖心传媒檚 part of The Stockholm Noir Trilogy, published in Sweden as Aldrig Fucka Upp. Nice to know some things just translate easily.
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