{"product_id":"crossing-borders-stories-and-essays-about-translation-isbn-9781609809744","title":"Crossing Borders: Stories and Essays about Translation","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of stories and essays about translating and translators\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What an astonishing collection, it seemed as if I could drink it--these pieces exude such humanness, refer effortlessly to the tender place that exists in between languages, and somehow leave you with both everything and nothing to say.\" --Ella Frances Sanders, author of Lost in Translation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Joyce Carol Oates's story \"The Translation,\" a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis's \"French Lesson I: Le Meurtre,\" what begins as a lesson in beginner's French takes a sinister turn. In the essay \"On Translating and Being Translated,\" Primo Levi addresses the joys and difficulties awaiting the translator. Lynne Sharon Schwartz's \u003ci\u003eCrossing Borders: Stories and Essays About Translation\u003c\/i\u003e gathers together thirteen stories and five essays that explore the compromises, misunderstandings, traumas, and reconciliations we act out and embody through the art of translation.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301657923813,"sku":"NP9781609809744","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609809744.jpg?v=1767724289","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/crossing-borders-stories-and-essays-about-translation-isbn-9781609809744","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}