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Also by David Treuer:

Rez Life, February 2012
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The Translation of Dr Apelles, September 2006
Hardcover

THE TRANSLATION OF DR APELLES
By: 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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Fiction

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.