{"product_id":"magyar-zni-helen-hajnoczky-9781552453278","title":"Magyar痙ni","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe word \"magyar痙ni\" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means \"to explain\" in Hungarian, but translates literally as \"make it Hungarian.\" This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's like to be \"made Hungarian\" by growing up with a parent who immigrated to North America as a refugee. In forty-five folk-art visual poems each paired with a written poem, Hajnoczky reveals the beauty and tension of first-generation cultural identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Because translation between cultures is always fraught - and yet somehow translate we must - \u003ci\u003eMagyar痙ni\u003c\/i\u003e explores language and cultural identity in the permeable space fomenting between family and society, word and image initiating us into a new alphabet of lived meaning. In reading we wonder along with \u003ci\u003eMagyar痙ni\u003c\/i\u003e's wandering \"you,\" we care and get entangled in the \"brambles of your cursive,\" we too are \"made Hungarian.\"'\u003cbr\u003e - Oana Avasilichioaei\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Familiar but out of reach, \u003ci\u003eMagyar痙ni\u003c\/i\u003e reforms the language of home on the tip of your tongue, a language of knotted cursive and bubbled syntax; folksong and stovetop. Each letter blossoms as a hand-drawn flower and a sputtering drone of spits and pith. \u003ci\u003eMagyar痙ni\u003c\/i\u003e punctuates every I with a poppy seed, every C with the splinter­ed foil of a solemn treat. Mournful and personal, Magyar痙ni calls out for the language of family.'\u003cbr\u003e - Derek Beaulieu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Hajnoczky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1552453278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781552453278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 0.30d","brand":"Helen Hajnoczky","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939581722879,"sku":"9781552453278","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a4415eca-6efd-4f85-a759-7728f656b8e7.jpg?v=1681442336","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/magyar-zni-helen-hajnoczky-9781552453278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}