The Reverse Side of the Tapestry by Alberto Manguel ocean vuong winner of the Michael Marks

winner of the Michael Marks Award

and transformation

and didn’t stop to eat or drink

its untranslatable title the name of all-night shop in Antwerp where she lives

The Reverse Side of the Tapestry by Alberto Manguel ocean vuong winner of the Michael MarksManguel is a generous companion he remains, in the proper sense of the word, an 'amateur,' a lover rather than a specialist.' ' George Steiner, The New Yorker The Reverse Side of the Tapestry is the definition Cervantes gives of translation in Don Quixote; here, it is an essay on the translator's craft. Alberto Manguel has been a translator of many great writers ' Borges and Marguerite Yourcenar into English; Katherine Mansfield and Paul Eluard into