Descripción
One day they were in love and the next, a manuscript appeared in his study, written in a language she didn't speak.
Leonie and Max are on separate but tangled paths. Now, she might be pregnant. And he's not answering her texts, off on some questionable assignment translating poetry from a language he seems barely to know. As Ana moves through the disintegrating island house her father filled with his paintings, the house where her mother struggled to survive, she guards her poems closely. Will Max bring her success enough to keep it? Can this foreign man rewrite her words, her art, into his tongue? Does every partnership require some form of surrender? When Max blinks off the map, Leonie asks Rhoda--expert travel writer--to track him down to Malta. Once there, Rhoda might discover more than Max's indiscretions. This Mediterranean island's sun-baked wildness undermines Rhoda's sense of reality. What kind of caper is unfolding? And what will she do with this new version of herself? Charged and mischievous, Katy Simpson Smith's The Maltese Version upends the stability of language, desire, and the ways we make meaning.Author: Katy Simpson Smith
Publisher: Fsg Originals
Published: 08/18/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780374619480
ISBN10: 0374619484
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 21st Century
- Fiction | Women
About the Author
Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of the novels The Story of Land and Sea, a Vogue best book of the year; Free Men; The Everlasting, a New York Times best historical novel of the year; and The Weeds. She is also the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Oxford American, Granta, and Literary Hub, among other publications. She received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in New Orleans.