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Intimacies

By: Katie Kitamura
Narrated by: Traci Kato-Kiriyama
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From the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between many truths.

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.

She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife but still entangled in his marriage. 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. And she's pulled into an explosive political controversy when she's asked to interpret for a former president accused of war crimes.

A woman of quiet passion, she confronts power, love and violence, both in her personal intimacies and in her work at the Court. 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.

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Great story about a multi-lingual ‘citizen of the world’ on a one-year contract as an interpreter at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Her morally shiftless personal life leaves her incapable of drawing black and white moral lines around the cases she is acting on as an interpreter. Overall? Interesting themes, let down by a mediocre narrator. Perhaps the flatness of her delivery was part of the plan, but it all felt a bit cold.

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