Name: The Long Table
SKU: 68907253
Price: 449.00 TWD
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Author: Robles, Rosa
ISBN: 9798170256815

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The Long Table

Robles, Rosa (Author) · Independently published · Paperback

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Synopsis "The Long Table"

A reserved literary translator arrives at a secluded estate expecting quiet weeks of work on a challenging manuscript. Instead she is drawn into the measured rhythm of a household centered on one long dining table. Each evening unfolds as a deliberate study in attention, suggestion, and the slow sharpening of jealousy between the elegant hostess and her responsive husband. The translator is invited only to observe at first, yet the quiet language of the table begins to claim her as well. She recognizes patterns in the hostess’s measured voice that echo the structures she has spent years translating, and soon those same phrases begin to reshape her own responses. What begins as intellectual curiosity deepens into an intimate contest of presence and restraint, where the boundaries between observer and participant grow indistinct. The manuscript she was hired to complete gradually loses its urgency beside the living text being written among the three of them. In this atmosphere of refined tension and ceremonial precision, jealousy becomes a shared medium of connection rather than a barrier. The translator must decide whether to remain an outsider or allow herself to be rewritten by the same quiet authority she once studied from a distance.