The Third Translation, Matt Bondurant
The Third Translation, Matt Bondurant
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The Third Translation

Author: Matt Bondurant

Narrator: Paul Michael

Abridged: 5 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/06/2005

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

A literary page-turner about one man's quest for an ancient mystery through the perilous streets of modern London Walter Rothschild has nothing but his work. Estranged from his wife and adult daughter, he spends his days and nights lost in translation -- constantly working and reworking the riddles inscribed on ancient funereal stones. A gifted American Egyptologist, he was hired by the British Museum in London to try to crack the code of one of the greatest remaining hieroglyphic mysteries -- the Stela of Paser. Stuck, with no new inspiration, he meets a seductive young woman who seems interested in him and his work. When Walter invites her back to the museum to get a closer look at his work, she secretly steals an antiquity and disappears. Thus begins Walter's frantic search to repair the damage he's caused. Threatened by villains real and imagined, Walter races against time to win back the antiquity and his reputation, without losing his life in the process. Utterly original and told in electric prose, this is a novel that beautifully weaves together exceptional insight into the inner yearnings of men with a fast-paced plot about ancient mystery and modern conspiracy. Ingenious, witty, and compelling, it is a novel to be savored and urged on all of your friends.

About Matt Bondurant

Matt Bondurant’s last novel, The Night Swimmer, was featured in the New York Times Book Review, Outside magazine, and the Daily Beast, among other outlets. His second novel, The Wettest County in the World, is an international bestseller and was made into the feature film Lawless, starring Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Jessica Chastain. His first novel, The Third Translation, is also an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages worldwide. Matt has published numerous short stories, poems, essays, and book reviews, as well as feature articles specializing in adventure and endurance athletic events. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on October 31, 2024

A gem that almost hides itself! THE THIRD TRANSLATION is not an easy book to like! Our hero, Walter Rothschild, an Egyptologist at the British Museum, is an ineffectual, pathetic obsessed man, driven only by a passion for his science. Boring and weak, ineffectual as a parent, spouse and lover, indecis......more

Goodreads review by Irena on April 12, 2023

Earnestly, I should have given not more than three stars to this peculiar story about an egyptologyst tasked with discerning the hidden meaning behind the text of an ancient Egyptian stela, but when have I been objective in my goodreads reviews? They reflect my subjective impression, not an impassio......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on February 21, 2017

First, I listened to the audiobook and this is the first time I've ever said that I think it might be better to read the actual book. I know I didn't appreciate it as much as I could have because my attention when listening to audiobooks is divided (I'm usually driving). I might try listening to it......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on July 08, 2010

This is a multi-layered, complex book and my principal question is whether that added to it, or detracted from it. I really enjoy the idea of a book centered around an academic puzzle but Bondurant chose to include so much historical, ethnographic information that the casual reader could easily be p......more

Goodreads review by LeeAnn on July 13, 2010

This was promoted along the lines of Dan Brown & it is--but more intelligent. Brown mixes fact & fiction at leisure w/the undiscerning not recognizing which is which. Bondurant uses indepth fact/research to build his storyline but remains true to fact as we know it at the moment. I find it so intere......more

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