Farinet's Gold

Weeks, John: - John Weeks studied French, Russian and Polish as he obtained a bachelor's degree from Amherst College and completed a doctorate in Slavic languages and literatures at the University of California in Berkeley. After spending nine months in Poland on a Fulbright fellowship, he returned to Berkeley to teach a class in beginning Polish, where he met Chris Chinni, his future wife, who had enrolled in the course. Over the years, John has translated numerous documents from Russian and Polish. Farinet's Gold is his first published literary translation.