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The French-American Foundation and The Florence Gould Foundation Announce Finalists of 22nd Annual Translation Prizes

New York, NY (April 29, 2009) - The French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation announce the finalists for their 22nd Annual Translation Prizes for superior English translations of French works published in 2008. There will be one award for translation in fiction, and a second for non-fiction.

The Beast Within by Emile Zola, translated by Roger Whitehouse nominated for the fiction award.

Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 464 pages | ISBN 9780140449631 | 29 Jan 2008 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP 

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About The Beast Within: A superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master Émile Zola considered The Beast Within-also known as La Bête Humaine-to be his "most finely worked" novel. This new translation finally captures his fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style. Set at the end of the Second Empire, when French society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new railways and locomotives it was building, The Beast Within is at once a tale of murder, passion, and possession and a compassionate study of individuals derailed by the burden of inherited evil. In it, Zola expresses the hope that human nature evolves through education but warns that the beast within continues to lurk beneath the veneer of technological progress.

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Hi guys-

I wanted to talk about something that seriously bugs me. I have lived a vegan lifestyle for more than 25 years and people rarely knew it. I always told myself it was because I hate labels, so ‘macrobiotic,' ‘vegan...' whatever was off my list of things to call myself. 

But that's not entirely true...actually not true at all. Having lived as part of both of these communities for many years, I think it's time to have the discussion about compassion, a word thrown about by both vegans and macrobiotics that seems to have little to do with the actual living of the lifestyle.

In macrobiotics, we say that by living this way, we are choosing to create a bigger life, one steeped in ancient wisdom, compassion and freedom of choice. And yet, I repeatedly see a kind of ‘them and us' attitude that excludes anyone not of the same mind as us. I was always taught that, in accordance with macrobiotic thinking, we are all part of one whole...all connected to each other and that what happens to one, happens to all.