Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780525246015 (0525246010)
Publish date: January 23rd 1989
Publisher: Dutton Books
Pages no: 280
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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