{"id":12940,"date":"2020-07-08T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?p=12940"},"modified":"2020-07-08T08:36:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T13:36:28","slug":"unica-at-modern-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/reviews\/unica-at-modern-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00danica at The Modern Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themodernnovel.org\/americas\/latin-america\/costa-rica\/fernando-contreras-castro\/unica-looking-at-the-sea\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"285\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?attachment_id=285\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Unica-Looking-at-the-Sea.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"250,400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u00danica Looking at the Sea\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Unica-Looking-at-the-Sea-188x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Unica-Looking-at-the-Sea.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-285 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Unica-Looking-at-the-Sea.jpg\" alt=\"\u00danica Looking at the Sea\" width=\"190\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Unica-Looking-at-the-Sea.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Unica-Looking-at-the-Sea-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/>The Modern Novel<\/a> blog has posted an extensive review of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/unica-looking-at-the-sea\/\"><em>\u00danica Looking at the Sea<\/em><\/a>, by Fernando Contreras-Castro, translated by Elaine S. 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