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ISBN:	1605984701 (ISBN13: 9781605984704)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hanne Schubert
Literary Awards:	Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Fiction (Second Place) (2014)

The Translator

Nina Schuyler

Hardcover | Pages: 303 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 1096 Users | 198 Reviews

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Title	:	The Translator
Author	:	Nina Schuyler
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 303 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2013 by Pegasus Books (first published January 1st 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Historical. Historical Fiction. Contemporary. Asia. Relationships

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In silken prose and with subtle suspense, Nina Schuyler brings us a mesmerizing novel of language and translation, memory loss and heartbreak, and the search for answers in a foreign country.

When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, her injury is an unusual but real condition--the loss of her native language. She is left speaking only Japanese, a language learned later in life. With her personal life at a crossroad, Hanne leaves for Japan. There, the Japanese novelist whose work she translated stunningly confronts her publicly for sabotaging his work.

Reeling, Hanne struggles for meaning and 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 and intriguing relationship, Hanne begins to understand the masks she has worn in her life, just as the actor dons the masks that have made him a legend of Noh. The demons from her past and present begin to unfold and Hanne sets out to make amends in this searing and engrossing novel.

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The main character Hanne Schubert has finished translating a book for Kobayashi, a Japanese novelist, who rejects her translation and her version of his main character, Jiro. She travels to Japan to meet the Noh actor, Moto, who is the real life model for the character in Kobayashi's book. This trip is easy for her as Hanne has lost all memory of her native language, English, and all other languages, expect for Japanese. This came as a result of an unfortunate fall and head injury.Meeting Moto,

I received a galley copy of this novel to read in exchange for an honest review.The Translator is a wonderful, beautiful, thought-provoking novel; I honestly could not put it down once I started reading it. Having studied a few languages in recent years, I've come to appreciate the tricky and detailed job that translators have and I enjoyed reading how the character Hanne approached the job and her understanding of the Japanese language. I also enjoyed reading about Hanne's time in Japan and the

A slow, languid, strangely hypnotic read, The Translator introduces us to Hanne who speaks languages for a living. Dutch/German by birth and upbringing but currently living in the States, Hanne teaches Japanese at a San Francisco university and is working on a Japanese-to-English translation of a novel by one of Japan's up and coming authors. She becomes so wrapped up in the novel that she essentially imposes her own ideas and thoughts about the characters onto her translation; she doesn't so

As a Japanese translator myself, of course I wanted to read this book. I wasn't disappointed. I found the book compelling and became quickly interested in the narrator and her life. It didn't hurt that I got to read someone else's thoughts about the process of translating. I didn't sense Japanese language lurking behind the English "translations" that are part of the book, so I suspect Schuyler is not a Japanese speaker herself, but I was so glad she took on this subject. As a translator I

We all have a little cop in our heads. An inner voice that tells us what is necessary and proper to do. Many times this is the voice of our parents, a point of view that we have internalized as a child and have accompanied us all our lives. Hannah Schubert, a respected Japanese-English-language translator, also has a voice of that kind. This is the sound of her German mother, who was strict and meticulous in teaching her through language learning, hard work, devotion and without too many



Audio version: If youre a parent who has made some real mistakes with raising your kids, or one who is having a hard time with a child, this is a book to listen to. The main character, Hanne, shows us that we never really grow up, we are constantly growing up. And it takes some of us a lot longer than others to make any progress. It's beautifully written and the narrator was the perfect choice.