The Translator
by John Crowley
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On an Indiana campus in 1961, an exiled Russian poet and a grieving student discover how words can alter the fate of nations.
A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerful enough to change the course of history.
The narrative sets their meeting at a prairie university, following Kit Malone as she enters Falin’s seminar after family tragedy silences her poetry.
Crowley anchors their bond in the difficult work of translation — an exacting search across two alphabets — to reconstruct verse preserved from Soviet labor camps.
The campus surrounds their quiet work with Cold War dread, placing their partnership against nearby missile silos as federal agents question the writer’s past.
- Dark Academia: Inside an austere university seminar room, Falin challenges his students to commit foreign verses to memory by heart, exploring how lyric art survives displacement.
- Cold War Fiction: As the Cuban missile crisis escalates toward nuclear brinkmanship, student protests erupt on campus while federal agents quietly track political dissent and foreign defectors.
- Dual Timeline: Thirty years after Falin’s sudden disappearance, an adult Christa travels to St. Petersburg in 1993, confronting aging Russian scholars seeking their lost poet’s fate.
- Also by This Author: Little, Big, Otherwise and Lord Byron’s Novel.
The book, The Translator [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780380815371 in Paperback by John Crowley may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Author
- John Crowley
- Format
- Paperback
- Published
- Mar 4, 2003
- ISBN-13
- 9780380815371
- ISBN-10
- 0380815370
- Pages
- 320
- Carton quantity
- 56 copies
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