In Translation

By W.S. Milner

In Translation is the parallel journey of two extraordinary travelers eight hundred years apart. Both are on personal voyages, both are looking for answers, both find inner peace. A vision comes to seventeen-year-old Rosamund. I dreamed on Shrove Tuesday I would find a most sacred relic." To rescue her village from sin and famine, she is sent by the abbot to Constantinople to translate a relic "of divine power and uttermost brilliance." She disguises herself as a religious pilgrim and embarks on a perilous quest in medieval thirteenth-century Aquitaine. "It doesn't matter to me how you learn this story, " Jesse writes in his Internet diary. "Only that you do." In Los Angeles at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world is succumbing to ecological and biological disaster. It is the onset of an Ice Age. Nations are gone; city-states endure. Jesse is a cyber-savvy, BASE-jumping ("to put the nerve back in Nirvana") seventeen-year-old on a quest to find his distant, mysterious father. Rosamund sails on a crusader ship from Venice, is an unwilling witness to the sacking of Zara, becomes a legend--a saint in the making. Je

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759550182
• ISBN13: 9780759550186
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"