Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language.
This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780140127737 (0140127739)
ASIN: 140127739
Publish date: March 1st 1990
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Academic,
School,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
Cultural,
Jewish,
Biography Memoir,
Canada,
Poland
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...
Hoffman's style has an uncommon subtlety. It is compassionate without sentimentality.
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