Hoffman EVA : Lost in Translation (Hbk) by Eva Hoffman

Hoffman EVA : Lost in Translation (Hbk) by Eva Hoffman

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.

Hoffman raises one provocative question after another about the relationship between language and culture . . . and about the emotional cost of re-creating oneself. -Newsday

Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland, and moved to Canada with her family when she was thirteen years old. She is the author of three nonfiction works, Lost in Translation, Exit into History, and Shtetl, as well as one novel, The Secret. She splits her time between London and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she works as a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780525246015
ISBN 10	0525246010
Title	Hoffman EVA : Lost in Translation (Hbk)
Author	Eva Hoffman
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1989-01-23
Number of pages	280
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.