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MRS. LOWE-PORTER <\/strong><\/a>is based on the life of Helen Lowe-Porter, a brilliant, ambitious, warm-hearted, and self-deprecating woman who struggles for her own literary voice against the conventions of her time and the demands of the two male luminaries in her life: the legendary novelist Thomas Mann, whose works she translates, and her charismatic husband Elias.
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“A captivating biographical novel… with <\/strong><\/em>Mrs. Lowe-Porter,<\/strong> Jo Salas has achieved the writing triumph that her never-met but vividly imagined grandmother-in-law hoped to write…a magnificent literary achievement.”<\/strong><\/em> \u00a0BookTrib<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

“A literary book in the best sense: about literature and its creation, and artistic in itself.”<\/em>
\nHistorical Novel Society<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“A woman ahead of her time.”
\n<\/strong>The New York Times<\/em>: The Secret of Thomas Mann’s Translator<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“With a richly imagined interior life and insight into the creative collaboration of translation Lowe-Porter\u2019s voice is uplifted for a new generation.”<\/strong>\u00a0Toronto Star<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

“An exploration of the complicated life of the translator of Thomas Mann – who is a writer in her own right. Salas asks difficult questions about work and gender – whose words should take precedence? Whose work? Whose needs? Salas uses the real life of Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter as the foundation for this fascinating novel.”
\n<\/em>–Roxana Robinson, author of Dawson\u2019s Fall<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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