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From Publishers Weekly In Schlink's unremarkable stand-alone thriller, the fortunes of Georg Polger, a German living in France who's struggling to make ends meet as a translator, change after he receives an offer of steady employment translating technical manuals. The naïve Polger doesn't suspect anything untoward about the job, even after learning his employer has paid him to duplicate work already done. When he finds that his new lover, Françoise Kramsky, is covertly photographing confidential plans for a new military helicopter, Polger's search for the truth takes him to pre-9/11 New York City, where the plot goes somewhat off the rails. Schlink fails to make the transformation of his colorless, mild-mannered hero into an action figure convincing. Those looking for a more engaging protagonist will find one in the author's detective series featuring Gerald Self (Self's Murder, etc.). (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. From Georg Polger is down and out in Provence. The translating assignments that pay his bills aren’t coming fast enough. When a new translation firm opens near his village, he finds work, money, and love with Francoise, the firm’s beautiful secr

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Author

Schlink, Bernhard

Publisher

Random House of Canada

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375725562

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3 / 5 (258 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14