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1) Intimacies
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lydia Pallas, a translator for the U.S. Navy, is hired by Alexander Banebridge, or "Bane, " a man who equally attracts and aggravates her, to translate a seemingly innocuous collection of European documents, and finds herself in the middle of a secret war against some of the most dangerous criminals on the East Coast.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an accident, renowned translator Hanne Schubert loses the ability to speak her native language. Speaking only Japanese, she leaves for Japan where she is forced to reexamine her life, including her estranged relationship with her daughter, after a Japanese novelist accuses her of sabotaging his work.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
To keep herself occupied after recently losing her sight, Zinaida begins a diary in the summer of 1888. When a family rents a guesthouse on her family's estate, Zinaida meets and befriends Anton, the middle son, who is a doctor and a writer. As the summer progresses, Zinaida's diary becomes an intimate, introspective narrative of her singular relationship with Anton. More than a century later, Katya Kendall discovers Zinaida's diary, and in a last...
Author
Series
Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning author Mary Jo Putney captivated the hearts of readers everywhere with her breathtaking hardcover debut, The Wild Child. Now, in her spectacular new novel The China Bride, she has created another brilliantly moving love story, and a very special heroine--a rare beauty torn between two cultures who valiantly struggles to discover the woman she is destined to be.
Born to a Scottish father and now living in China, Troth Montgomery...
Born to a Scottish father and now living in China, Troth Montgomery...
7) Black ice
Author
Series
Ice thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion--even a little danger. So when she's offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote château, she jumps at the chance to shake things up.
Then by chance Chloe discovers her employers are anything but the entrepreneurs they appear, and suddenly she knows far too much. Her clients
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Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Abandoning her literary goals in favor of an unconventional life with her friend and daughter, Shira is overwhelmed by unexpected career ambitions in the wake of a job offer that proves more complicated than expected.
12) The Centre
Author
Publisher
Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anisa Ellahi dreams of being a translator of "great works of literature," but mostly spends her days subtitling Bollywood movies and living off her parents' generous allowance. Adding to her growing sense of inadequacy, her mediocre white boyfriend, Adam, has successfully leveraged his savant-level aptitude for languages into an enviable career. But when Adam learns to speak Urdu practically overnight, Anisa forces him to reveal his secret. Adam...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1964, at the height of the Cold War, Kate Landau, a young American expert on Russia, joins the CIA. Drawn to danger and adventure, she hopes to be sent to Moscow, but instead finds herself stuck in an office doing boring translations. When her big break comes, she's recruited to work undercover in New York City, investigating a KGB officer posing as a UN diplomat. The KGB officer is not a stranger. She'd met him in Moscow years before when he...
14) Autumn bridge
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
415 pages : 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
x, 198 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of translation; another describes her decision to translate her own...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
430 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young couple on the brink of marriage--the charming Veblen and her fiancé Paul, a brilliant neurologist--find their engagement in danger of collapse. Along the way they weather everything from each other's dysfunctional families, to the attentions of a seductive pharmaceutical heiress, to an intimate tête-à-tête with a very charismatic squirrel. Veblen (named after the iconoclastic economist Thorstein Veblen, who coined the term "conspicuous...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
173, 8 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
American movie star Marilyn Monroe will be visiting Korea on a four-day USO tour, and Alice has been chosen as her translator. Though intrigued, Alice has few expectations of the job--what could she and a beautiful actress at the peak of her fame possibly have to talk about? Yet the Marilyn she meets, while just as dazzling and sensual as Alice expected, is also surprisingly approachable. As Marilyn's visit unfolds, Alice is forced into a reckoning...
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