Foreign Tongue
A Novel of Life and Love in Paris

I first learned of "Foreign Tongue" through an online advertisement a few years ago. My interest in it was further piqued by its focus on a young woman, with dual French/American citizenship (conversant in both French and English) and her experiences in Paris. As someone who has visited Paris twice......more

While this book is (sort of) touted as a romance,that wasn't what I found most enjoyable. More intriguing were Anna's thoughts about culture and language as she is working on the translation of the book. Because she is informally bi-lingual, meaning that she learned French from her family and studyi......more

Delightful book about a young woman who gets jilted by her actor boyfriend. She moves to her aunt's apartment in Paris and becomes a translator for a ficitious love story. She falls in love with a director and the story goes back and forth from the story to the woman's life in Paris. I enjoyed this......more

I was left with mixed feelings about this one. The story line was dull, predictable and clichéd. It was fairly well written though, and as a Francophile, I liked the French aspects of the book as well as the snippets of language. I loved the quotations at each chapter too. Can’t give it more than 2......more

What? I was practically dragging myself through this book. It’s painfully boring and slow and I really just couldn’t care much about the story. The protagonist is this bicultural American girl who left LA and moved to Paris in a whim, lived in her aunts apartment and picked up a translation job. I t......more