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Lost in Translation

By Eva Hoffman

Lost in Translation book

Lost in Translation

By Eva Hoffman

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"A marvelously thoughtful book . . . It is not just about emigrants and refugees. It is about us all." -The New York Times When her parents brought her from the war-ravaged, faded elegance of her native Cracow in 1959 to settle in well-manicured, suburban Vancouver, Eva Hoffman was thirteen years old. Entering into adolescence, she endured the painful pull of nostalgia and struggled to express herself in a strange unyielding new language. Her spiritual and intellectual odyssey continued in college and led her ultimately to New York's literary world yet still she felt caught between two languages, two cultures. But her perspective also made her a keen observer of an America in the flux of change. A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation. Lost in Translation is also an incisive meditation on coming to terms with one's own uniqueness, on learning how deeply culture affects the mind and body, and finally, on what it means to accomplish a translation of one's self. "Hoffman raises one provocative question after another about the relationship between language and culture . . . and about the emotional cost of re-creating oneself." -Newsday
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
290
Release Date:
1990-03-01
Publication Date:
1990-03-01
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0140127739
ISBN13:
9780140127737
Weight:
310 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
16 cm

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