Description
Product ID: | 9780099428664 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Lost In Translation |
Subtitle: | A Life in a New Language |
Authors: | Author: Eva Hoffman |
Page Count: | 288 |
Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, True stories of heroism, endurance and survival, Migration, immigration and emigration, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, Migration, immigration & emigration, USA |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragedies and discoveries born of cultural displacement. 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 uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-11-06 |