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Canada CTTIC – website
includes links to associations in the individual provinces: If you need
assistance with the version of French spoken in Quebec (generally
referred to as Canadian French), the translators association of this
province is an excellent source of information: Legal translators
of Canada: USA American
Translators Association (ATA)
http://www.atanet.org/ England ITI
http://www.iti.org.uk/indexMain.html
Germany ADÜ-Nord http://www.adue-nord.de/ serving primarily Northern Germany Switzerland ASTTI
http://www.astti.ch/ Austria Universitas
http://www.universitas.org/ France Belgium CBTIP/BKVTF http://www.translators.be/ Here are a few links about St. Andrews, its surroundings, and the dream province of New Brunswick: Town of St. Andrews http://www.townsearch.com/standrews/visitors.html http://www.standrewsnb.ca/standrews.htm http://www.townofstandrews.ca/ Our pride and joy, the Fairmont Algonquin Hotel http://www.fairmont.com/algonquin/ Islands in the Bay of Fundy in our vicinity Campobello Island http://www.campobello.com/ Deer Island http://www.deerisland.nb.ca/ Grand Manan “Rhythm of the Tides” http://www.timpeters.com/GM.html New Brunswick http://www.tourismnewbrunswick.ca/index.htm New publications we have enjoyed reading: Reading is a high priority for both Inge and Peter Noeninger. We get our book recommendations primarily from the culture and book sections of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), the “New books” feature in the German news magazine “Der Spiegel” and, of course, from personal recommendations of friends and acquaintances in Germany.
Ms. Inge Noeninger is a member of two
book clubs: one in St. Andrews (English-language books) and one in
Montreal (French-language books), with exchange via e-mail for the
latter. Books in English: “The World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman From Publishers Weekly Before 9/11, New York Times columnist Friedman was best known as the author of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, one of the major popular accounts of globalization and its discontents. Having devoted most of the last four years of his column to the latter as embodied by the Middle East, Friedman picks up where he left off, saving al-Qaeda et al. for the close. For Friedman, cheap, ubiquitous telecommunications have finally obliterated all impediments to international competition, and the dawning 'flat world' is a jungle pitting 'lions' and 'gazelles,' where 'economic stability is not going to be a feature' and 'the weak will fall farther behind.' Rugged, adaptable entrepreneurs, by contrast, will be empowered. The service sector (telemarketing, accounting, computer programming, engineering and scientific research, etc.), will be further outsourced to the English-spoken abroad; manufacturing, meanwhile, will continue to be off-shored to China. As anyone who reads his column knows, Friedman agrees with the transnational business executives who are his main sources that these developments are desirable and unstoppable, and that American workers should be preparing to 'create value through leadership' and 'sell personality.' This is all familiar stuff by now, but the last 100 pages on the economic and political roots of global Islamism are filled with the kind of close reporting and intimate yet accessible analysis that have been hard to come by. Add in Friedman's winning first-person interjections and masterful use of strategic wonksterisms, and this book should end up on the front seats of quite a few Lexuses and SUVs of all stripes." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“What the Body Remembers” by Shauna Singh Baldwin From Publishers Weekly The dramatic and brutal story behind the 1947 partition of India, as played out in the region of Punjab, is the compelling backdrop for this stunning first novel that entwines the fate of three remarkable characters: Sardarji, a wealthy Sikh landowner whose heart is in India, but whose head is in England; Satya, his constantly scheming, feisty wife who lives for her husband but cannot give him children; and Roop, Sardarji's second, much younger wife, married for the express purpose of providing the family with an heir. Intensely atmospheric, the novel contains lyrical descriptions of daily life in a village with dusty fields of maize and clusters of homes; the cinnamon, anise and fennel smell of Satya's kitchen; Sardarji's Oxfordian attire and his spindly-legged English furniture. Baldwin, who grew up in India, skillfully creates an exotic milieu where women are sheltered from the outside world and struggle for influence over their families. As headstrong Satya, more involved in her husband's affairs than most of her peers, and demure Roop, trained to exercise traditional feminine wiles, battle for Sardarji's favor and the children Roop soon produces, Sardarji is increasingly distracted by the furor over independence and the future of the Indian state. Baldwin achieves an artistic triumph on two levels, capturing the churning political and religious history of modern India and Pakistan as she explores memorable transformations: of Satya, from a dominating force in her family to a lonely outsider; of Sardarji, from an idealistic, ambitious engineer to a hardened, more realistic civil servant; and finally, of Roop, from an arrogant, self-centered daughter to a selfless wife and mother who becomes the backbone of her family. 6-city author tour; simultaneous publication in the U.K. and Canada; rights sold in Germany, Italy, France. (Oct.)
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Information, Inc. “Saturday” by Ian McEwan From Publishers Weekly In the predawn sky on a Saturday morning, London neurosurgeon Henry Perowne sees a plane with a wing afire streaking toward Heathrow. His first thought is terrorism--especially since this is the day of a public demonstration against the pending Iraq war. Eventually, danger to Perowne and his family will come from another source, but the plane, like the balloon in the first scene of Enduring Love, turns out to be a harbinger of a world forever changed. Meanwhile, the reader follows Perowne through his day, mainly via an interior monologue. His cerebral peregrination records, in turn, the meticulous details of brain surgery, a car accident followed by a confrontation with a hoodlum, a far-from-routine squash game, a visit to Perowne's mother in a nursing home and a family reunion. It is during the latter event, at the end of the day, that the ominous pall that has hovered over the narrative explodes into violence, and Perowne's sense that the world has become "a commuity of anxiety" plays out in suspense, delusion, heroism and reconciliation. The tension throughout the novel between science (Perowne's surgery) and art (his daughter is a poet; his son a musician) culminates in a synthesis of the two, and a grave, hopeful, meaningful, transcendent ending. If this novel is not as complex a work as McEwan's bestselling Atonement, it is nonetheless a wise and poignant portrait of the way we live now. (Mar. 22)
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“Ich und Kaminski” by Daniel Kehlmann – For details, please consult German page “Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum” by Frank Schätzing – For details, please consult German page
“Siddhartha”
by Hermann Hesse – For details,
please consult German page Books in French: “Soie” by Alessandro Baricco – For details, please consult French page “La vie devant soi” by Romain Gary under the pseudonym of Émile Ajar - For details, please consult French page “Les âmes grises” by Philippe Claudel – For details, please consult French page
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