Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language - Softcover

Hoffman, Eva

 
9780140127737: Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140127739 ISBN 13: 9780140127737
Verlag: Penguin, 1990

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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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eva Hoffman was born in Krakow, Poland, and emigrated to America in her teens. She is the author of Lost in Translation, Exit Into History, Shtetl, The Secret, and After Such Knowledge. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Hoffman lives in London.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
1990
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140127739
ISBN 13 
9780140127737
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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