The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongue - Softcover

Lesser, Wendy

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ISBN 10: 1400033233 ISBN 13: 9781400033232

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2005

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"Intimate, entertaining and thoughtful. . . . It is impossible to do do justice to all of the outstanding essays in this volume." --San Francisco Chronicle"Charming, moving and funny reflections on childhood, family, nationality, and ethnicity as well as language. . . . Genuinely transporting" --The New York Sun "Eloquently explores the links between childhood and language." --Chicago Tribune"Provides readers not just with a peak inside the heads of these dazzling writers, but a trip to each of their homelands, from Russia to Italy to Chile." --Condé Nast Traveler"This delightful collection É vividly recounts the process that anyone who loves words goes through: the process of falling under the spell of language's seemingly infinite potential." --Publishers Weekly "Intimate, entertaining and thoughtful É this volume provides fascinating insight into the way that grappling with language is a way people also grapple with life." --San Francisco Chronicle"This is a collection that should heighten anyone's awareness of the potential and the limitation of the English language." --San Jose Mercury News"Ms. Lesser's contemporary Conrads -- writers who write in English though it's not their first language -- have delivered charming, moving and funny reflections on childhood, family, nationality, and ethnicity as well as language." --New York Sun"I laughed and cried over this collection of stories embracing the English language. {One of the 25 best books of 2004}." --Seattle Times and Post- Intelligencer "A rich and surprising book brimming with love of culture and respect of language." --Tucson Citizen"Powerful for their brevity É the richness and the range of the collection make this a valuable anthology." --Kliatt (Massachusetts) "This collection of essays is fascinating." - Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen-Times

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A collection of original essays reflects on their writers' formative experiences of language and culture, from Bharati Mukherjee's appreciation of the Bangla language after the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, to Amy Tan's frustration with comparisons between English and Chinese, to Josef Skvorecký's decision to learn English so he could write a fan letter. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400033233
• ISBN 13: 9781400033232
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256