Lost In Translation
A Life in a New Language
$30.32
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2008
Summary
‘It is one of those books, like the very best of travel writing, that hits a newly discovered nerve and takes a few steps further towards civilising the planet’ - Guardian
In 1959, 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland, for a new life in America. This memoir evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootedness and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century.
Her autobiography is profoundl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099428664 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099428660 |
| Author: | Eva Hoffman |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2008 |
| Weight: | 202g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A deep and lovely book. The author manages to capture the very essence of exile experience, in beautifully human terms against a background of keen and searching intellect. This is how tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people felt in this century. Eva Hoffman speaks movingly for all of them – Josef Skvorecky, author of The Engineer of Human Souls
Eva Hoffman’s elegant and elegaic autobiography is something different… It is the story…of a paradise lost but regained…a tender and memorable book * Independent *
Hoffman takes her experience into the realms of universality, expressing herself in a way which has echoes and points of recognition for others who leave their history, their roots, their known identity adn must try to recreate themselves in another culture… An exquisite feast – Angela Neustatter * Literary Review *
Eva Hoffman
Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland and emigrated to America at the age of thirteen. The recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, she currently lives in London.
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