A moving saga about love and survival, Dust of a Day is the story of a Greek family's struggles through a hundred years of wars and rebellions, population exchanges, and massacres. Elizabeth, matriarch of a family in flight, leads her charges with determination, bent on ensuring they enjoy a brighter future, while the loyal servant girl Sophie guards her secrets for almost a century. Through the original family's trials and tribulations-and then through the eyes of their children, and their children-the entire twentieth century unrolls, along with the new generation's journey toward...

Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion of particular "originals"; and the role translation plays in the formation, re-formation, and deformation of national and international literary canons. By challenging the assumption that stable originals even exist, Karen Emmerich also calls into question the tropes of ideal equivalence and unavoidable loss that contribute to the low status of translation, translations, and translators...

Literary Translation and the Making of Originals engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation; how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion of particular "originals"; and the role translation plays in the formation, re-formation, and deformation of national and international literary canons. By challenging the assumption that stable originals even exist, Karen Emmerich also calls into question the tropes of ideal equivalence and unavoidable loss that contribute to the low status of translation, translations, and translators...