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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Italian translation of Prof. Alan Drew’s novel

The Italian translation of Prof. Alan Drew’s novel Gardens of Water (Nei Giardini d'Acqua) has been chosen by the best-selling Italian weekly magazine Oggi for its series of international novels “Mille Splendide Storie” (“A Thousand Beautiful Stories”).  Gardens of Water, called “a deep and touching novel that has moved readers around the world,” is one of 10 novels in the series.  Along with Italian, Gardens of Water has been translated into Spanish, German, Hebrew, Indonesian, and a number of other languages.