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Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language - Eva Hoffman

Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss - André Aciman, Eva Hoffman, Edward W. Said, Bharati Mukherjee, Charles Simic

Michelangelo in Ravensbruck: One Woman's War Against the Nazis - Karolina Lanckoronska, Noel Clark, Eva Hoffman

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Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe - Eva Hoffman

An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork - Etty Hillesum, Eva Hoffman

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msleighm books rated it

11 years ago

text Appassionata

Modern European literature, though not as pretentious as many. Would never consider this a beach read (sorry Oprah).4.5 stars

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travelin rated it

11 years ago

text Exit Into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe

I should really rate this lower for putting the idea into my addled young head that Bulgaria was an intellectual paradise, to visit or even to live. It's not the view of people from the new Bulgaria, so Ms. Hoffman's analysis of the positive effects of communism on creative life may not have quite d...

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elisas8 rated it

12 years ago

text Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

this wasn't a book that i could get into. it's well written and actually parts of it should be quite interesting, but somehow it wasn't. i think a lot of it is that she talks about how she had to develop a distance and detachment from things in order to feel she was a part of her new life, her new...

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