Translation sites : a field guide List of figures Introduction: Polyglot places I. Architectures of memory: 1. The monument the struggle for memory. the space of synagogues Lviv 2. The opera house languaged architecture. The Neues Deutsches Theater in Prague 3. The church the work of conversion Santa Maria la Blanca Toledo II. Transit: 4. The hotel between place and non place difference and indifference. The Grand Budapest Hotel and the Tokyo Park Hyatt 5. The mountaintop translation changes you. The language of heptapods 6. The tower from ziggurat to spiral from Brueghel to Primo Levi 7. The bridge across small spaces. Where is the between the Bridge of Mostar and the Øresund Bridge 8. The war hotel the Holiday Inn Sarajevo III. Crossroads: 9. The market urban translanguaging. Chungking mansions Hong Kong 10. The street activist translation the streets of Montreal and Cairo 11. The museum displaying indigenous languages the National Gallery of Canada IV. Thresholds: 12. The translators study picturing translation from Saint Jerome to Nurith Aviv 13. The library near and far. Chicago and Czernowitz 14. The garden replication. the Japanese Garden in Ireland the German Garden City in Turkey 15. The psychoanalysts couch the schizo body V. Borders control surveillance: 16. No mans land the step mother tongue the dead zone Cyprus 17. The checkpoint the shibboleth and Ellis Island 18. The edge of empire far from where Joseph Roth and Brody Conclusion Acknowledgements Image credits Index.