{"id":348,"date":"2018-10-30T13:46:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T17:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josalas.com\/?page_id=348"},"modified":"2024-09-24T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T15:48:29","slug":"new-novel-anticipation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/josalas.com\/index.php\/fiction\/new-novel-anticipation\/","title":{"rendered":"MRS. LOWE-PORTER"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
A novel<\/h5>\r\n
Published by\u00a0 JackLeg Press<\/a>
Available through bookstores, libraries, and
Amazon.com\u00a0<\/a>
Bookshop.org\u00a0<\/a>
Barnes & Noble<\/a><\/h5>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

“A woman ahead of her time”—New York Times<\/em> full page feature<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

I was completely seduced by the story, the recounted life, and the personality of the main character. How does Helen retain control of the\u00a0central challenge of being Mann\u2019s translator\u00a0without\u00a0losing herself in his\u00a0overwhelming grandeur as a world-famous novelist? Jo Salas\u00a0captures\u00a0brilliantly the shifting depths underfoot. <\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

–Adam Thorpe (Ulverton<\/em>, The Rules of Perspective<\/em>)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\"\"<\/a>Set in Munich, Oxford, and Princeton, Jo Salas’s new novel Mrs. Lowe-Porter<\/em>\u00a0is loosely based on the life of Helen Lowe-Porter<\/a>, the translator of Thomas Mann<\/a>\u00a0and a writer in her own right.\u00a0It\u2019s the story of a brilliant, ambitious woman\u2019s struggle for her own voice, against convention and the demands of the two male luminaries in her life.<\/p>\r\n

Helen Lowe-Porter\u2019s translations of the great twentieth century German novelist Thomas Mann\u00a0bring him acclaim from the English-speaking literary world\u2014and the Nobel Prize. But her elegant, precise, painstaking work is overlooked by readers, ignored or criticized by reviewers.\u00a0Mann himself complains about having a woman translator and pressures her to work faster. Helen swears that one day she\u2019ll quit this servitude and finally finish her own novel.<\/p>\r\n

Helen\u00a0is married to the celebrated scholar\u00a0Elias Lowe who claims the freedom to sleep with other women, citing his\u00a0excessive \u201clife force.\u201d\u00a0In love with her husband,\u00a0Helen dreads but tolerates his romantic encounters. But when he seduces their daughter\u2019s young friend she\u2019s forced to reimagine her own future.<\/p>\r\n

Readers’ comments<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Background articles by Jo Salas:\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Imagining Helen: The Life of Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter<\/a><\/p>\r\n

An Invisible Woman: The Case of the Missing Translator<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Irrepressible Words<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n

The Lost Words of Helen Lowe-Porter, Thomas Mann’s Translator<\/a><\/p>\r\n

The Woman Behind the Mann<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Revealing a Real Life in Historical Fiction: Writing Helen Lowe-Porter<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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