{"id":246,"date":"2003-03-18T14:10:54","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T14:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/03\/the_independent\/"},"modified":"2003-03-18T14:10:54","modified_gmt":"2003-03-18T14:10:54","slug":"the_independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/the_independent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Independent Foreign Fiction Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite interesting to read the <a href=\"http:\/\/enjoyment.independent.co.uk\/books\/news\/story.jsp?story=386206\">shortlist <\/a>of books for the Independent&#8217;s Foreign Fiction prize.<br \/>\nInteresting because I&#8217;ve actually read a couple of them. <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/000024.html#000024\">\ufffd9.99<\/a> is a very entertaining satire of the advertising industry, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0349116180\">The Athenian Murders<\/a> is an excellent modern\/ancient muder mystery. Very postmodern.<br \/>\nI must admit that I bought a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0571207766\">The Feast of the Goat<\/a> by Mario Vargas Llosa but haven&#8217;t actually read it yet. It sits there on my shelf in hardback, while the paperback has recently been published.<br \/>\nI really need to crack on with my book reading which has slowed down enormously recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite interesting to read the shortlist of books for the Independent&#8217;s Foreign Fiction prize. Interesting because I&#8217;ve actually read a couple of them. \ufffd9.99 is a very entertaining satire of the advertising industry, and The Athenian Murders is an excellent modern\/ancient muder mystery. Very postmodern. I must admit that I bought a copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}