Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

Title: Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language Author: Eva Hoffman ISBN: 9780140127737 Publisher: Penguin Books Published: 1990 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Very Good Memoir 1616728 Publisher Description: "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 o