Polyglot Nadine Mutas has always loved tangling with words, whether in her native tongue German or in any of the other languages she's acquired over the years. The more exotic, the better, she thought, and thus she studied the cultures and languages of South Asia and Japan, leaving university with a degree in intercultural communication and a head full of rich, Asian mythology. She worked at a translation agency for a short while, putting to use her knowledge of English, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Hindi. Before long, though, her lifelong passion for books and words eventually drove her to