“Schuyler writes with piercing intelligence and real insight into the complex worlds of literary translation and human relationships.” — Ellen Sussman, author of the New York Times bestselling novel, French Lessons When renowned translator Hanne Schubert falls down a flight of stairs, she suffers from an unusual but real condition — the loss of her native language. Speaking only Japanese, a language learned later in life, she leaves for Japan. There, to Hanne’s shock, the Japanese novelist whose work she recently translated confronts her publicly for sabotaging his work. Reeling, Hanne 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, volatile relationship, Hanne is forced to reexamine how she has lived her life, including her estranged relationship with her daughter. In elegant and understated prose, Nina Schuyler offers a deeply moving and mesmerizing story about language, love, and the transcendence of family.

Product Description: Like Snow Falling on Cedars, a stirring tale of wartime love April, 1944.  The quiet rural village of Stark, New Hampshire is irrevocably changed by the arrival of 150 German prisoners of war.  And one family, unexpectedly divided, must choose between love and country...read more

A murder takes place and the chief suspect is Lucy Fly. As Lucy is interrogated, she reveals her past. Why did Lucy leave England for Japan, and what had prompted her to sever all links with her family back home? She was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, so why was she not forthcoming about the circumstances of their meeting?

Product Description: In this delightful novel from an author who "has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy,"* we meet Margaret Nathan, the brilliant but forgetful author of an unlikely bestseller. Happily married to a benevolently egotistical, slightly dull but sexy professor, Margaret seems blessed-until she finds herself seduced by an eighteenthcentury novel she discovers in the library...read more

When Sammar, a Sudanese widow living alone in Aberdeen and working as an Arabic translator at a Scottish university, takes a job with Rae, a Scottish Islamic scholar, she finds herself falling in love, despite his lack in faith in all she holds sacred, in the first North American edition of the first novel by the acclaimed author of Minaret. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Living paycheck to paycheck in Paris, American book translator Chloe Underwood would give anything for some excitement and passion - even a little danger. So when she's offered a lucrative weekend gig translating at a business conference in a remote chateau, she jumps at the chance...read more

In fourteenth-century Japan, a woman sits by the window of the highest tower of Cloud of Sparrows Castle, awaiting her fate as enemies prepare to overrun the castle and setting down on a scroll an extraordinary tale that links past, present, and future. By the author of Cloud of Sparrows. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

After a nasty breakup with her boyfriend Tom, Lizzie Skorvecky, alone in her London home, plunges into her work of translating a Czech detective novel into English, only to have the violence and brutality of the novel appear in her own life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

Working as a interpreter for the New York City court system, Korean-American Suzy Park makes a startling discovery that casts doubt on the facts surrounding her greengrocer parents' murders five years earlier. A first novel. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Torrey Tunet delves into a case of blackmail when Natalie Sylvester Cameron, a wealthy widow and an affordable housing advocate, begins receiving threatening phonecalls and letters, in a delightful mystery set in the picturesque Irish town of Ballynaugh. Reprint.

Product Description: Blending historical fiction with feminist and revolutionary politics, Susan Daitch's first novel is a complex and unique look at the controversial nature of historical representations. This story within a story within a story opens in 1968, with a preface to Dr...read more

Product Description: Ellen Gilchrist's debut novel expands the thematic and unusual landscapes the author made indelibly hers in radiantly spun stories. THE ANNUNCIATION follows the desires of Amanda McCarney: an unwed mother on a Mississippi Delta plantation at age fourteen, a wealthy New Orleans matron into her early forties, and now a divorced poetry student living in a university community in the Ozarks...read more

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American Torrey Tunet finds a new mystery in the Irish village of Ballynagh when the granddaughter of a wealthy man becomes the suspect in a murderous attack on the old man on the grounds of his estate. Reprint.

Cassandra Reilly, a Spanish translator and amateur detective, agrees to go to Barcelona and search for Frankie Stevens' missing husband, Ben, who disappeared without a trace. Reprint.

The orphaned daughter of a Scottish father and Chinese concubine mother, Troth Montgomery supports herself working as a translator for Europeans in China, where she encounters Kyle Renbourne, Viscount of Maxwell, who marries her to protect her from enemies who would destroy them both. Reprint.

Interpreter Dominique faces a difficult choice when she overhears someone at a pharmaceutical conference admit they are planning to stall a promising new HIV treatment. A first novel.

Lesbian sleuth Cassandra Reilly journeys to Venice to uncover the true reason why her best friend, bassoonist Nicky Gibbons, has been accused of stealing a Venetian family's priceless heirloom. By the author of Trouble in Transylvania. Original.

When Torrey Tunet, an accomplished twenty-eight-year-old translater who works for the rich and powerful, stays at the home of friend Desmond Moore, she becomes the prime suspect in a series of murders and must use her newfound confidence as well as her street smarts to clear her name. Reprint.

The peaceful, contemplative lives of the Sharpe sisters--Miriam, a translator of French texts, and Beatrice, a professional pianist--are complicated by three very different men--Max, Beatrice's agent; Simon, a charming married man; and journalist Tom Rivers. 30,000 first printing.

Cassandra Reilly, American expatriate and translator, finds herself among a cast of intriguing and flamboyant characters in a mountain spa in Transylvania, where she tackles vampires, the Romanian police, and religion to solve a murder. National ad/promo. Tour.