Intimacies av Katie Kitamura

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<p><b>**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**<br><br>An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home.</b><br><br>She''s drawn into simmering personal dramas. Her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage.<br><br>Her friend Jana witnesses a seemingly random act of violence, a crime the interpreter becomes increasingly obsessed with as she befriends the victim''s sister.<br><br>And she''s pulled into an explosive political controversy when she''s asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes.<br><br>She is soon pushed to the precipice, where betrayal and heartbreak threaten to overwhelm her, forcing her to decide what she wants from her life.<br><br><b>One of Barack Obama''s Favourite 2021 Reads</b><br><b>A <i>New York Times</i> Top 10 Book of 2021</b><br><br><b>''One of my favourite novels of the past few years'