Human translation quality varies a lot but even good fiction translation is not always staying close to the original. If you would translate fiction true to the

Human translation quality varies a lot but even good fiction translation is not always staying close to the original. If you would translate fiction true to the original, like you would translate a legal document it unlikely would not be an enjoyable read and that’s the main point for majority of fiction books. So translators often make some changes like using idioms from the destination language which rarely map 1:1 to idioms from the source language or make other changes to keep the style/mood of the original even if they have to sacrifice minor facts.