The Maltese version
(2026)

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
NEW FICTION/SMITH,K

1 Hold on 1 Copy

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
New & Popular Fiction NEW FICTION/SMITH,K Due: 11/24/2026

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : FSG Originals / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

305 pages ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780374619480, 0374619484, 9780374619480, 0374619484
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

"A charged, delightfully offbeat novel of four women forging their way across time, place, and language in search of desire, power, and connection"-- Provided by publisher

One day they were in love and the next, a manuscript appeared in his study, written in a language she didn't speak. Leonie and Max are on separate but tangled paths. Now, she might be pregnant. And he's not answering her texts, off on some questionable assignment translating poetry from a language he seems barely to know. As Ana moves through the disintegrating island house her father filled with his paintings, the house where her mother struggled to survive, she guards her poems closely. Will Max bring her success enough to keep it? Can this foreign man rewrite her words, her art, into his tongue? Does every partnership require some form of surrender? When Max blinks off the map, Leonie asks Rhoda--expert travel writer--to track him down to Malta. Once there, Rhoda might discover more than Max's indiscretions. This Mediterranean island's sun-baked wildness undermines Rhoda's sense of reality. What kind of caper is unfolding? And what will she do with this new version of herself?

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