Posted by Steven on 21/11/2007, 12:12:50, in reply to "Re: My apologies"
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--Rizwan wrote:
: I read "Palace Walk" and was very impressed
: with it, though I wonder if something more was lost in
: translation.
Yes, I liked it very much as well. It reminds me a lot of Buddenbrooks, and also of The Makioka Sisters.
I kept in mind what Lale said earlier about how Turkish is a language rich in idiom that makes it difficult to translate. I assume that Arabic is the same way, and that much of what is idiomatic in Arabic was translated into simile and metaphor in the English version - the text is unusually rich in these devices.
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