The author, most recently, of “Lovers on All Saints’ Day” says the toughest thing about translating is being unfaithful to the original: “Doing a little violence to a sentence you love is hard, and many sleepless nights can be caused by it.”
Margaretta Barton Colt’s self-published book details the 27-year life of the Military Bookman, a specialty antiquarian shop she and her husband ran on the Upper East Side.
