INTIMACIES: Katie Kitamura

INTIMACIES

by Katie Kitamura

This book really pulls you in an unexpected way. Under its quiet reserve is a tide of ideas and emotional undercurrents. The narrator, an unnamed woman, works as a translator at the Hague. Her job, to translate the words of war criminals, opens her curious mind to complexities of where the personal meets the political. Then there are her personal relationships, nuanced ties that ebb and flow between connection and disconnection. An absorbing novel with a quiet but potent force.

- Recommended by Suzy

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