About this book
Interpreter Ada Wren is flown to a disused observatory in the Chilean Andes, where a mining sale worth billions turns on a 1994 treaty in Spanish and Aymara. The two texts should say the same thing. Ada starts to listen to the language she was not hired for.
The publisher’s description of this book gives away how Book 2 ends. It opens after Book 2.
Open the companion after Book 2spoils Books 1–2
At a glance
- Genre
- Locked-room mystery, literary mystery
- Mood
- Tense, reflective
- Setting and era
- Present day, China
- Pace
- Medium
- Point of view
- First person
- Reading order
- Start at Book 1
- Heat
- Not applicable
Your companion
In this series
Book 1The Middle Voice
Book 2The False Cognate
Book 3You are hereThe Authentic Text
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