The Translator: one of the top thrillers of 2023 and of the month for The Sunday Times/Times

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Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to Moscow to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. Clive Franklin, a Russian language expert in the Foreign Office, is summoned unexpectedly to the city to act as translator for the British Prime Minister. The two have not met since they were in New York together and she left him to marry a Russian, who has subsequently died.

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And although this time the enemy state is Russia, not Germany, and the prize at stake is the UK’s telecommunication links rather than naval secrets, The Translator feels very much like an updated The Thirty-Nine Steps, complete with fake news, WhatsApp and smartwatches. I had ridden a horse through Scythian tombstones in the Altai, visited a former gulag on the White Sea and a winery on the Black Sea, and, in mid-January, flown across eight times zones to Yakutz in the Russian Far East, the coldest city on earth, where the average winter temperature is minus 50. Harriet Crawley’s The Translator centres on a Russian plan to attack Britain by cutting the cables off the Cornish coast that carry internet traffic across the Atlantic. I doubt very much that I shall ever set foot in Russia again, but many Russian people and places are stamped on my heart. Sir, As William Hague has suggested ( Oct 31; letters, Nov 1), there are approaches that can address problems with specific tech, such as reviewing laws about chatbots.The author has taken the idea of such an incendiary and fragile political scenario, added a layer of intrigue and spycraft to the story, and drawn both a fascinating comparison and fast-paced read with an ending that allows for further stories with this fearless set of characters. Her chance comes when her former flame Clive Franklin (Hugh Grant, if they ever film it) arrives in Moscow as the translator for a British delegation. We were delighted here at You’re Booked to have the chance to interview Harriet Crawley, author of our April Book of the Month, The Translator. Oxana spent her days on the landing at the top of the entrance stairs, right by the lift, sitting in an old swivel chair next to a rickety table and a narrow bed, where she slept at night. I had spent the better part of 20 years in Russia, and I was hooked on the country and on its people.

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It follows the idea that wars between nations are primarily going to be fought on a technical footing rather than via physical fighting.It’s still early when, full of fresh fruit, Nutella crêpes and frothy cappuccinos, I hop on board a tender with. The details of their work are convincing, as is the portrayal of Marina’s simultaneous devotion to Russia and hatred of the current regime and high-level corruption.

The Translator: one of the top thrillers of 2023 and of the

This throws up some really thought-provoking issues around language and interpretation that I have not considered before - not only around the speed that translators of speech have to work at, but how their choice of words can influence the meaning of very tricky situations. I went to the White Sea and the Black Sea, and many places in between, including the coldest city on earth, Yakutz in the Russian Far East. This book has everything I want in a political thriller, with a twist that comes from looking at this through the eyes of two translators.Annual profit forecasts have been lifted by Next for the fourth time in five months after colder weather prompted. In the 1970s I started an art business with my two brothers and from 1975-79 I lived and worked in Teheran. The novel is enriched by the author’s obvious familiarity with the minutiae of Russian life and character, from the niceties of chatting to your chauffeur in a bugged car to the hidden significance of ladies’ footwear.