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“Schuyler writes with piercing intelligence and real insight into the complex worlds of literary translation and human relationships.” ― Ellen Sussman, author of the New York Times bestselling novel, French Lessons
When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, she suffers an unusual condition― the loss of her native language. Speaking only Japanese, a language she learned later in life, she leaves for Japan. There, to Hanne’s shock, the Japanese novelist whose work she recently translated confronts her publicly for sabotaging his work.Reeling, Hanne seeks out the inspiration for the author’s novel ― a tortured, chimerical actor, once a master in the art of Noh Theater. Through their passionate, volatile relationship, Hanne is forced to reexamine how she has lived her life, including her estranged relationship with her daughter. In elegant prose, Nina Schuyler offers a deeply moving and mesmerizing story about language, love, and the transcendence of family.
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Nina Schuyler's first novel, The Painting, was nominated for the Northern California Book Award, and named a “Best Book of the Year” by the San Francisco Chronicle and Rocky Mountain News. She was nominated for a 2010 Pushcart Prize and teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco.
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*Starred Review* As a translator, Hanne Schubert believes in language—its power to convey and emote, to create common ground and bridge gaps in understanding. After a serious fall, Hanne awakes to find she can speak only one of her many languages, Japanese. Her native English is gone, which means her teaching career, translation projects, and life in San Francisco is, for the time, on hold. Rather than recover in isolation, she travels to Japan for a conference at which she’s accused of mistranslating the famous Kobayashi’s latest novel. Wounded, ashamed, and purposeless, Hanne reexamines her life thanks to the philosophy of a curious new friend. Multilingual readers will be delighted by how Schuyler weaves the intricacies and the process of translation into the novel without interrupting the story or its tone. Monolinguals, too, will relate to Schuyler’s carefully sculpted, complex characters and their relationships, the most tender of which involves Hanne’s poignant transformation in regard to her daughter, Brigitte. Evocative, powerful, and well-paced, Schuyler’s novel illuminates how interpreting a person is as complicated an art as translating a book because of the risk of reading what one wants to discover rather than what one needs to learn. --Katharine Fronk
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- PublisherPegasus Books
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1605985856
- ISBN 13 9781605985855
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages336
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