The Interpreter: A Novel of War Crimes, Family, and the Weight of Truth (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798181349513)

For eighteen months, Nadia Vasic has carried a war criminal's words into his own ears - and never once let him see her face.

At the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Nadia is one of the world's most respected simultaneous interpreters. Day after day, from a soundproof booth above the courtroom, she translates the testimony of Drazen Kovač - a man on trial for orchestrating one of the worst atrocities of the Bosnian War.

She has never spoken to him. She has never needed to. Her job is to be invisible: a voice with no face, carrying truth without leaving fingerprints.

Then a single document surfaces from the war's archives - and the careful distance Nadia has built her entire career on collapses in an instant. The man in the dock is not a stranger.

He is her father.

THE INTERPRETER is a quiet, devastating literary courtroom drama about the cost of telling the truth - and the impossible question at its center: can you carry the truth about someone, and love them, without protecting them from it?

For readers of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, and anyone who has ever wondered what it costs the people who carry other people's worst words for a living.

Author: Smart Imuere
ISBN-13: 9798181349513
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/13/2026
Pages: 118
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d