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Misinterpretation

Misinterpretation

Xhoga, Ledia

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Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1959030809
ISBN13: 9781959030805
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Sep 3 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Longlisted for the 2025 Booker Prize

Winner of the 2024 New York City Book Award

Finalist for the 2024 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Absolutely gorgeous. Taut as a thriller, lovely as a watercolor.--Jennifer Croft

In present-day New York City, an Albanian interpreter reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his therapy sessions. Despite her husband's cautions, she soon becomes entangled in her clients' struggles: Alfred's nightmares stir up her own buried memories, and an impulsive attempt to help a Kurdish poet leads to a risky encounter and a reckless plan.

As ill-fated decisions stack up, jeopardizing the nameless narrator's marriage and mental health, she takes a spontaneous trip to reunite with her mother in Albania, where her life in the United States is put into stark relief. When she returns to face the consequences of her actions, she must question what is real and what is not. Ruminative and propulsive, Ledia Xhoga's debut novel, Misinterpretation, interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation.

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