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The Translation of Dr Apelles
David Treuer
A Love Story
Graywolf Press
September 2006
On Sale: April 23, 2008
256 pages ISBN: 1555974511 EAN: 9781555974510 Hardcover
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Dr Apelles, Native American translator of Native American
texts, lives a diligent existence. He works at a library
and, in his free time, works on his translations. Without
his realizing it, his world has become small. One day he
stumbles across an ancient manuscript only he can
translate. What begins as a startling discovery quickly
becomes a vital quest—not only to translate the document
but to find love. Through the riddle of Dr Apelles’s heart,
The Translation of Dr Apelles explores the boundaries of
human emotion, charts the power of the language to both
imprison and liberate, and maps the true dimensions of the
Native American experience. As Dr Apelles’s quest nears its
surprising conclusion, the novel asks the reader to
speculate on whose power is greater: The imaginer or the
imagined? The lover or the beloved?
In this brilliant mystery of letters in the tradition of
Calvino, Borges, and Saramago, David Treuer excavates the
persistent myths that belittle the contemporary Native
American experience and lays bare the terrible power of the
imagination.
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