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In the event we cannot assist you with specific translations – for
example because you need a language combination other than our working
languages, German, English, or French, or because you need translation
assistance in a different field – you can turn to the following
translator associations to find other qualified linguists:
Canada
CTTIC – website
includes links to associations in the individual provinces:
http://www.cttic.org/e_member.htm
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:
http://www.ottiaq.org/index_en.php
Legal translators
of Canada:
CALT/ACJT
http://pages.videotron.com/acjt/
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
BDÜ
http://www.bdue.de/
Switzerland
ASTTI
http://www.astti.ch/
Austria
Universitas
http://www.universitas.org/
France
SFT
http://www.sft.fr/
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.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business
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)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of
Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Books in German:
“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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