Auschwitz Violin (9 page)
M
ARTHA
T
ENNENT
, a translator from Catalan and Spanish, was born in the United States, but has lived most of her life in Barcelona, receiving her B.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Barcelona. She recently edited
Training for
the New Millennium: Pedagogies for Translation and Interpreting
and has translated the novels
Death in Spring
by Mercè Rodoreda and
The Invisible City
by Emili Rosales. Her translations have appeared in
Two Lines, Words Without Borders, PEN America
, and
Review of Contemporary Fiction
.
Constable & Robinson Ltd
3 The Lanchesters
162 Fulham Palace Road
London W6 9ER
www.constablerobinson.comOriginally published as
El violi´ d
’
Auschwitz
by Columna (in Catalan), 1994First published in translation in the US by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, 2010
First published in the UK by Corsair, an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2010
Copyright Maria Àngels Anglada 1994
Translation copyright 2010 by Martha TennentThe right of Maria Àngels Anglada to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
The right of Martha Tennent to be identified as the translator of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual events or locales is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.
A copy of the British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available from the British Library
ISBN: 978–1–84901–893–7
