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Lars Erslev Andersen. Innocence Lost: Islamism and the Battle over Values and World Order. Denmark: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007. 178 pages, bibliography. Paper US$24.99 ISBN 978-87-7674-200-3

the reference to how "the president's women, daughters and children" are moved during the war that makes little sense in English (daughters are children, after all) (p. 111). Zubaida's Window appeared in Arabic as Mussamarat al-Sukoon [Corridors of Silence]. Like so many difficult translation choices, this new title both gains and loses something. The subtitle "a novel of Iraqi exile" perhaps helps to describe to a North American audience what the novel is "about" and including the protagonist's name in the title underlines that this is "one woman's story." These are, however, the most frequently repeated tropes in fiction by Arab women translated into English and once again raise the question as to how much one should change a creative literary work to increase its appeal to the target audience. Would "Corridors of Silence" really not have appealed to as substantial an audience asZubaida's Window''! To their credit, the translators have chosen a new title that does manage to reproduce the emphasis on Zubaida's loneliness in exile in Berlin at the end of the novel. In the final scene, she has called the paramedics because of an irregular heartbeat. She lies staring out the window of her flat in her all-but-abandoned building, waiting as they move through the silent corridors looking for her. The television set on the cover of the English-language version also poses the question as to what the window of the title is—Zubaida observes life through the open window of her Berlin apartment, but the television is also a window into the war and her exile. Michelle Hartman McGill University