{"id":10910,"date":"2018-06-20T13:20:46","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T03:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=10910"},"modified":"2018-08-08T13:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T03:42:43","slug":"life-sentence-and-the-blue-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=10910","title":{"rendered":"Life Sentence and The Blue Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was thrilled to receive ten copies of a small bilingual book of two short stories, <em>Life Sentence<\/em> and <em>The Blue Cross<\/em>, my translations of <em>Condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 perp\u00e9tuit\u00e9<\/em> and <em>La Croix bleue <\/em>by the New Caledonian author, Claudine Jacques.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10920 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03266-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03266-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03266-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03266-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03266-1200x1800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10922 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03272-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03272-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03272-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03272-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC03272-1200x1800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/>Life Sentence<\/em> was published last year in <em>Southerly Journal<\/em> (Sydney University), and now it&#8217;s available in this little edition from Volkeno Books, Vanuatu. This is the second bilingual book published by Volkeno that includes Jacques&#8217; original and my translation. The first was <a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php\/2017\/07\/25\/the-mask\/\"><em>Le Masque \/ The Mask<\/em>.\u00a0<\/a> Both <em>The Mask <\/em>and the new book are available to purchase from <a href=\"http:\/\/noiraublanc.fr\/index.php?route=product\/product&amp;path=62&amp;product_id=145\">Les \u00c9ditions noir au blanc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Life Sentence<\/em> is concerned with leprosy, once an incurable disease among poorer New Caledonians. <em>The Blue Cross<\/em> tells the story of a wife dealing with an alcoholic husband. Both stories end with hope.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was thrilled to receive ten copies of a small bilingual book of two short stories, Life Sentence and The Blue Cross, my translations of Condamn\u00e9 \u00e0 perp\u00e9tuit\u00e9 and La Croix bleue by the New Caledonian author, Claudine Jacques. Life Sentence was published last year in Southerly Journal (Sydney University), and now it&#8217;s available &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=10910\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life Sentence and The Blue Cross&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,20],"tags":[858,1005,156,1259,1006,716,2,1007,269,7,8,1258,3,1043],"class_list":["post-10910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french-literature-and-translation","category-my-photos","tag-claudine-jacques","tag-condamne-a-perpetuite","tag-french-literature","tag-la-croix-bleue","tag-life-sentence","tag-literary-translation","tag-literature","tag-new-caledonia","tag-new-caledonian-literature","tag-photography","tag-photos-2","tag-the-blue-cross","tag-translation","tag-volkeno-books-vanuatu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10910"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11150,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10910\/revisions\/11150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}