{"product_id":"lost-in-translation-eva-hoffman-9780140127737","title":"Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A marvelously thoughtful book . . . It is not just about emigrants and refugees. It is about us all.\" -\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation. \u003ci\u003eLost in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eva Hoffman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0140127739\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140127737\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/1990\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.82h x 5.12w x 0.56d","brand":"Eva Hoffman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048960520447,"sku":"9780140127737","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7adc64f2-2064-4e64-90a1-4642079f0e3e.jpg?v=1684998804","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lost-in-translation-eva-hoffman-9780140127737","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}