The Translators: A Novel

by Robert M. Fedorchek

Pilar Orsini Oquendo has just lost the love of her life. Her fianc, Gonzalo, has been wrenched from her grasp by his untimely passing. Left alone to grieve, she finds herself at their favorite place, on a secluded beach in Spain. It is here where Gonzalos childhood friend finds Pilar and, in a fit of lust, rapes her.
Distraught and betrayed, Pilar soon finds the rape has produced a pregnancy. Despite the difficulty, Pilar decides to keep the baby. She struggles to wade through her emotional turmoil and continue her ambitious career as a translator of American literature. While speaking at Columbia University, Pilar meets Gus Brubaker.
Gus is a Spanish literature translator, and he is immediately taken in by Pilars intellect and stunning beauty. Pilar is conflicted and still dealing with the aftermath of her rape as her attacker continues his harassment. She is also pregnant. How will she explain this to Gus, who, she believes, will surely leave her when she reveals her pregnancy?
The Translators tells a story of troubled romance set in the world of linguistics and literature. As Pilar and Gus travel the world together, they also must travel beyond pains of the past. In the conquering of violence, there is a possibility of healing and perhaps, a possibility of endless love.

600 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 16, 2010

About the author

Dr. Robert M. Fedorchek is a professor emeritus and past chair of the department of modern languages and literatures at Fairfield University, where he taught for thirty-nine years. He holds a BA, MA, and PhD, and has published twenty-two books of translations of Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well as four novels. Fedorchek and his wife, Theresa, live in Fairfield, Connecticut.