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Amazon.com Review Nicole Mones doesn't waste any time getting to the heart of the matter in her first novel, Lost in Translation . Within the first 10 pages we discover that protagonist Alice Mannegan, an interpreter based in Beijing, has a yen for sex with Chinese men. By the time we reach page 20, we've learned that Alice is in full flight from her father, a racist U.S. congressman, and about to start working for Adam Spencer, an American archeologist on the hunt for the missing bones of one of the century's biggest scientific finds: Peking man. Having set the stage, Mones steps back and lets her characters do the work as she proceeds to spin a tale that is part mystery, part love story, and part cultural exchange. Alice and Spencer travel to a remote region of China, accompanied by Dr. Lin Shiyang, with whom Alice falls in love. Mones spends a fair amount of time on the team's search for the bones, whose mysterious disappearance during the Second World War has never been explained, but her main focus is less on finding Peking man than on exposing the skeletons in her main characters' closets. As Alice, Spencer, and Dr. Lin move forward in their quest, they are forced to reckon

Who reads Lost in Translation : A Novel?

Author

Mones, Nicole

Publisher

Random House, Incorporated

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385319348

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Travel

Rating

3.64 / 5 (1,680 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13