Lost in Translation - Hardcover

Mones, Nicole

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385319347 ISBN 13: 9780385319348

Publisher: Delacorte Pr, 1998

Synopsis

Alice Mennegen, an American translator in Beijing, joins professor Lin Shiyang on an archaeological expedition that becomes a breathtaking erotic journey across some of the most far-flung regions of China and into her past. A first novel. Tour.

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Review:

Advance praise for "Lost in Translation:
""Lost in Translation is an adventurous and romantic tale of a complex American woman in an exotic landscape. A remarkable first novel."
--Dominick Dunne, bestselling author of "Another City, Not My Own
"Nicole Mones takes you on an enthralling, sensuous journey through China that leads deep into the hidden chambers of the human heart."
--Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Crimes of the Heart
"A complex portrait of a woman in search of herself . . . that reveals as much about character and cultural differences as it does about a search for priceless, long-lost fossils. Mones succeeds in integrating archeological history, spiritual philosophy and cultural dislocation into a tale of identity on many levels."
--"Publishers Weekly, starred review

"From the Hardcover edition.

Advance praise for "Lost in Translation: "
" "Lost in Translation" is an adventurous and romantic tale of a complex American woman in an exotic landscape. A remarkable first novel."
--Dominick Dunne, bestselling author of "Another City, Not My Own"
" Nicole Mones takes you on an enthralling, sensuous journey through China that leads deep into the hidden chambers of the human heart."
--Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Crimes of the Heart"
" A complex portrait of a woman in search of herself . . . that reveals as much about character and cultural differences as it does about a search for priceless, long-lost fossils. Mones succeeds in integrating archeological history, spiritual philosophy and cultural dislocation into a tale of identity on many levels."
--"Publishers Weekly," starred review

"From the Hardcover edition."

Advance praise for "Lost in Translation: "

""Lost in Translation" is an adventurous and romantic tale of a complex American woman in an exotic landscape. A remarkable first novel."
--Dominick Dunne, bestselling author of "Another City, Not My Own"

"Nicole Mones takes you on an enthralling, sensuous journey through China that leads deep into the hidden chambers of the human heart."
--Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Crimes of the Heart"

"A complex portrait of a woman in search of herself . . . that reveals as much about character and cultural differences as it does about a search for priceless, long-lost fossils. Mones succeeds in integrating archeological history, spiritual philosophy and cultural dislocation into a tale of identity on many levels."
--"Publishers Weekly, " starred review
"From the Hardcover edition."

Advance praise for "Lost in Translation: "
""Lost in Translation" is an adventurous and romantic tale of a complex American woman in an exotic landscape. A remarkable first novel."
--Dominick Dunne, bestselling author of "Another City, Not My Own"
"Nicole Mones takes you on an enthralling, sensuous journey through China that leads deep into the hidden chambers of the human heart."
--Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Crimes of the Heart"
"A complex portrait of a woman in search of herself . . . that reveals as much about character and cultural differences as it does about a search for priceless, long-lost fossils. Mones succeeds in integrating archeological history, spiritual philosophy and cultural dislocation into a tale of identity on many levels."
--"Publishers Weekly, " starred review

"From the Hardcover edition."

Advance praise for Lost in Translation:

"Lost in Translation is an adventurous and romantic tale of a complex American woman in an exotic landscape. A remarkable first novel."
--Dominick Dunne, bestselling author of Another City, Not My Own

"Nicole Mones takes you on an enthralling, sensuous journey through China that leads deep into the hidden chambers of the human heart."
--Beth Henley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Crimes of the Heart

"A complex portrait of a woman in search of herself . . . that reveals as much about character and cultural differences as it does about a search for priceless, long-lost fossils. Mones succeeds in integrating archeological history, spiritual philosophy and cultural dislocation into a tale of identity on many levels."
--Publishers Weekly, starred review

From the Hardcover edition.

Synopsis:

Alice Mannegan, an American translator in Beijing, joins professor Lin Shiyang on an archaeological expedition that becomes a breathtaking erotic journey across some of the most far-flung regions of China and into her past.

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Pr
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385319347
• ISBN 13: 9780385319348
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370