Untranslatable: a memoir

"An irresistible, razor-sharp memoir about a literary translator's many selves-wife, mother, global citizen-and the strange convergences of life, language, and craft. As a literary translator, Lara Vergnaud's work opens doors to transformative worlds: novels from around the globe about patients with mysterious illnesses, butchers who go mad, and landscapes that reflect our complicated inner lives. As she translates each work-patiently, obsessively-her own life continues with the complexities of such stories: a string of dizzy spells send her to the hospital; she struggles to get pregnant; marital strains eclipse daily life; her family embodies several cultures, but doesn't quite fit anywhere. Just as Vergnaud searches meticulously for the right words to transcend language itself, she tries to find solutions to-and meaning from-daily hardships bearing novelistic twists"-- Provided by publisher.