"Miss Herbert" a web of narratives in which the heroes and characters are translations</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content=""Miss Herbert" a web of narratives in which the heroes and characters are translations"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content=""Miss,Herbert",a,web,of,narratives,in,which,the,heroes,and,characters,are,translations"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">30-10-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>"Miss Herbert" a web of narratives in which the heroes and characters are translations</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">London, UK (Guardian): It is a tempting thing to imagine: young Adam Thirlwell, stunned by the success of his debut, Politics, translated into 30 languages (the author himself has maybe one and a half), sets himself to write a sort of thank-you book to his reading and education, a work that will feature many of his favourite books and authors, and ingeniously link them together, in a narrative or web of narratives in which the heroes and characters are translations and foreign readers and writers - a sort of erotics of reading. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2199842,00.html " target="blank">books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2199842,00.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show