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The Interpreter

✍ Scribed by Marani, Diego; Landry, Judith

Book ID
109156011
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2015
Tongue
English
Weight
743 KB
Series
Language 3
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781925240245

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

After the acclaimed New Finnish Grammar and The Last of the Vostyachs, The Interpreter is the third in a trilogy of novels on the theme of language and identity.

The Interpreter is both a quest, a thriller, and at times a comic picaresque caper around Europe, while also exploring profound issues of existence.

GΓΌnther Stauber, head of Translation and Interpreting at a major international organisation in Geneva, seems to be suffering from a mysterious illness when his translations become unintelligible and resemble no known language. He insists he is not ill and that he is on the verge of discovering the primordial language once spoken by all living creatures. His boss, the novel's narrator, Felix Bellamy, decides GΓΌnther has to go.

In turn, Felix starts speaking the same gibberish as the missing interpreter. And then his wife disappears, perhaps in search of GΓΌnther. He seeks help in a sanatorium in Munich where he is prescribed an intensive...

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