{"id":3401,"date":"2012-10-14T15:43:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2012-10-14T15:43:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T21:43:42","slug":"icefall-in-german","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/?p=3401","title":{"rendered":"Icefall in German"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received copies of the German translation of <em>Icefall<\/em>. I think it&#8217;s a really interesting take, and I particularly like the tattoos on Solveig&#8217;s hand and face. I had never pictured her that way, but I think it&#8217;s pretty cool. It&#8217;s also fun to see how widely interpretations of the material can vary, when comparing this, the more realistic German cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/048924950-skaldenwinter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3402\" title=\"Skaldenwinter\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/048924950-skaldenwinter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/048924950-skaldenwinter.jpg 367w, https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/048924950-skaldenwinter-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>to the more fantastical, almost ethereal Italian translation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Daughter-of-the-Ice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3088\" title=\"Daughter of the Ice\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Daughter-of-the-Ice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Daughter-of-the-Ice.jpg 300w, https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Daughter-of-the-Ice-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In some ways, this is actually a reflection of the different ways people read the book.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p>Just a reminder, I&#8217;ll be in Utah this week doing a couple of library events on the 17th, in Murray and Brigham City. If you&#8217;re in the area, come on by! Details to the right in the sidebar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I received copies of the German translation of Icefall. I think it&#8217;s a really interesting take, and I particularly like the tattoos on Solveig&#8217;s hand and face. I had never pictured her that way, but I think it&#8217;s pretty cool. It&#8217;s also fun to see how widely interpretations of the material can vary, when [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,15,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-icefall"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtjQ-SR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewjkirby.com\/kirbside\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}