The Translator's Bride
Published on 19. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-940953-95-3 (ISBN)
Description
After his bride leaves him, the Translator tries to figure out how to put his life back together. His employers aren't paying him, he's trying to survive a woman's unwanted advances, and he's trying to make the best of his desperate living conditions. Darkly funny, filled with acidic observations and told with a frenetic pace, this work is an incredible ride--whether the reader is a translator or not. not.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Rochester, NY
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-940953-95-3 (9781940953953)
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João Reis, born in 1985, is a Portuguese writer and a literary translator of Scandinavian languages (Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic). He studied philosophy and has lived in Portugal, Norway, Sweden, and the UK, having worked in several different occupations, from book publisher to kitchen chef. He has written various short stories published in digital format or zines, and his first major work is his novel The Translator's Bride. Though still an emerging author, Reis's work has already been compared to that of Hamsun and Kafka, and represents a literary style unseen in contemporary Portuguese writing.