Woods (translation and textual studies, Dublin City U.) investigates Czech writer Kundera"s claim that for him, translation is everything--an attitude he shares with other bi-lingual exiled writers. Another of her goals, however, is to show that the process of translation is not simply a relationship between a source text and a target text, or a translator and an author, but is a central meeting point for a mixture of relationships that are textually, culturally, or personally bound. Distributed in the US by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)