| The Translator Contributor(s): Just, Ward (Author) |
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ISBN: 0395957664 ISBN-13: 9780395957660 Publisher: Mariner Books OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1999 Annotation: Sydney Van Damm loves living among foreigners: having escaped Germany and his boyhood memories of World War II, he makes a life as a translator in Paris. There he meets Angela, an American expatriate who becomes his wife. Their marriage is brushed by tragedy, and in the turbulent seventies and eighties, as the new Europe is born, Sydney gets involved in an East German scam that comes crashing down around him. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Thrillers - Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.58" W x 8.53" (0.91 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Just, Ward: - WARD JUST's novels include Exiles in the Garden, Forgetfulness, the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. |