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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
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. .
3) Intimacies
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths. 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...
5) The Centre
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
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 begrudgingly...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In one of the hidden corridors of power at UN headquarters, translator Silvia Broome overhears a potentially explosive secret about a planned assassination attempt. But when federal agent Tobin Keller investigates her claim, is she a victim or a suspect?
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Series
Language
English
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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 grew...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins. Decades later, on an assignment to translate a rare book, Daniel Goodman finds himself embroiled in a web of secrets carefully kept within the ancient city and in the mystery of the man whose story the book does not finish: Sebastien"--
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Crazy wisdom explores the arrival of Tibetan Buddhism in America through the story of Chogyam Trungpa, who landed in the U.S. in 1970. Trungpa became renowned for translating ancient Buddhist concepts into language and ideas that Westerners could understand and shattered preconceived notions about how an enlightened teacher should behave. Initially rejected, his teachings are now recognized by western philosophers and spiritual leaders as authentic...
10) It's in his kiss
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Gareth St. Clair is in a bind. His father, who detests him, is determined to beggar the St. Clair estates and ruin his inheritance. Gareth's sole bequest is an old family diary, which may or may not contain the secrets of his past ... and the key to his future. The problem is--it's written in Italian, of which Gareth speaks not a word. All the ton agreed: there was no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. She's fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken,...
Author
Series
Feminine pursuits novel volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In 1816 London, widow Catherine St. Day hires Lucy Muchelney to translate a French astronomy text and thus finish her husband's scientific legacy, and they unexpectedly find themselves falling in love.
12) Por un beso
Author
Series
Bridgerton volume 7
Publisher
Urano
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Hyacint, la última hija soltera de la familia Bridgerton, ha perdido la ilusión por las temporadas de baile en Londres. Aunque es joven y hermosa y pertenece a una familia muy admirada, su ágil inteligencia, su lengua descarada y su fuerte carácter parecen ahuyentar a todos los pretendientes. Excepto a Gareth St. Clair, el nieto díscolo de Lady Dunbury, el seductor con peor reputación entre la alta sociedad y el único en todo Londres capaz...
Author
Series
[Torrey Tunet mystery] volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
While in Ireland Torrey Tunet of Massachusetts is invited to a castle whose owner lends her a diamond necklace. He is murdered and Torrey is arrested while having the necklace appraised. But she did not do it and must clear her name.
Author
Series
[Torrey Tunet mystery] volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Wherever Torrey Tunet goes, murder is never far behind... All she wants is enough peace and quiet to complete her multi-lingual series of children's books. Where better to find it than in an old cottage on the rural estate of her dear friends, the Ashendens of Ballynagh, Ireland? But as she settles in, translator Torrey Tunet finds trouble in paradise. First she witnesses her best friend Rowena Keegan's murderous attack on her beloved grandfather,...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From "a master of historical fiction" (NPR), Karin Tanabe's A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York City, and one remarkable woman's journey from the United Nations, to the cloistered drawing rooms of Manhattan society, to the secretive ranks of the FBI. A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks like a perfect life for Katharina Edgeworth is anything but. It's 1954,...
Author
Series
[Torrey Tunet mystery] volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Torrey Tunet delves into a case of blackmail when Natalie Sylvester Cameron, a wealthy widow and an affordable-housing advocate, begins receiving threatening phone calls and letters.
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Series
Language
English
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The body rolled off the planks and slipped into the water with barely a splash, quickly embraced by the steady current flowing toward the city of Mantova. It comes to rest against rocks overlooked by the grim ramparts of Castello di San Giorgio as the river Mincio flows on towards the Po and the Adriatic Sea...Rick Montoya, an American from New Mexico self-employed as a translator in Italy once again puts his linguistic skills to use for the local...
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley's life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped by rebels while serving as an interpreter in Ukraine, Signe Kincaid has spent the past decade secreting out valuable information about Russian assets in the US to her CIA handler. Fearing for her daughter after being discovered as an operative, Signe sends her to former Navy SEAL Hamilton Jones for safekeeping. When Ham discovers the reason Signe has kept her distance, he must choose between love for his wife and love for the nation he has...
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