About this title: In 1959 13-year-old Eva Hoffman left her home in Cracow, Poland for a new life in America. This personal 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.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1990-03-01
ISBN-13:9780140127737ISBN:0140127739
Description: Acceptable. Some damage to the cover but integrity still intact, binding slightly damaged but integrity still intact, possible writing in margins, possible underlining and highlighting of text. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Edition: 6th Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140127737ISBN:0140127739
Description: Good. 5" x 7 3/4" 280 Pages. Some cover edge and spine wear. Light creases. First page has owner's name. No other marks or stamps. From the war-ravaged, faded elegance of her native Cracow she was brought by her parents to settle in well-manicured, suburban Vancouver. Eva Hoffman was thirteen lyears old, and the New World loomed as a terra incognita. Entering into edolescence, she endured the painful pull of nostalgia and struggled to express herself in a strange, unyielding new language. Her ... read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 1989 Dutton ARC soft cover. NOT EX LIB! Pages are clean & bright with light reading wear, spine is creased, mild edgewear, old store tag on cover. Advance Uncorrected Proofs. 280 p. read more
Edition: ADVANCE UNCORRECTED PROOF
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: DUTTON, New York, NY
Date Published: 1989
Description: Very Good. 5 3/8" x 8 1/4" TRADE PAPERBACK Sticker removal left damage on cover, otherwise very good. A memoir of a young girls voyage to America and her transition from one culture to another. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E P Dutton, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780525246015ISBN:0525246010
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. DJ has marks, chipping, clipped flap-Cover has edgewear, marks, bumping-Marks on edge-POS crossed out on FFEP. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Date Published: 1990-02-01
ISBN-13:9780140127737ISBN:0140127739
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780140127737. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140127737ISBN:0140127739
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780099428664ISBN:0099428660
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 288 pages. A memoir of the author who left her home in cracow, poland in 1959 when she was 13-years-old for a new life in america. (Paperback) read more
Edition: First Edition/First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: E P Dutton, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780525246015ISBN:0525246010
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book is tight with no markings, light soiling to page edges, boards have some rubbing and bumping, dj has rubbing, soiling and edges have curling and creasing. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780140127737ISBN:0140127739
Description: Good. Very general wear, cover in good shape, minor corner wear, some mild edge wear, minor interior blemishes, but little to no other markings. Good little reading copy! aaTP DPL110509 All items shipped to US include delivery confirmation. Thanks for looking! read more
"The best account I have ever read of the deep meaning of immigration, the implication of moving between cultures and languages. A little verbose and lengthy towards the end, this book still gets a masterpiece status on my bookshelf because of the excellence of the part describing the immigration."
It was hard not to skim through pages and pages of long descriptions, using large words for the sake of using large words. I can imagine that this writer has so much more interesting detail to tell about moving from Poland to Canada at age 13, but she chooses instead to tell me over and over and over again how she felt isolated. I wanted detail; I wanted stories. I had neither. It eventually made me bored..."
"This book happened to be on the bookshelf of the exchange-student apartment Kate and I lived in during 2001-2002. I read every book on that shelf because English reading material was rare and expensive. This was one of the treasures. A stunningly detailed memoir about growing up one place and living in another place and language.
I always try to recommend this book to people and I hope more people have heard of it outside of the circles I run in... apparently Eva Hoffman is coming to Philadelphia next week to the free library and I can't wait!"
"I just read this book for a humanities class centered around the idea of translation, literally and metaphorically. It is the author's memoir of growing up in post-war Poland and immigrating to America as a teenager, which is interesting enough for the insight into Polish culture and philosophy provided. But beyond that, this book is exciting because it is nothing like what you would expect of an immigrant story-- she focuses her story around the role of language in experience, and the effects of shifting from one language to another. More broadly speaking, this book is a reflection on the ways language of any kind, even a native language, is a 'translation' of our selves, our experiences, our reality, our essence. She balances a genuine love of language against the truth she experiences as an immigrant that all language, all communicate, is essentially a mediation, creating distance between experience and our understanding of it. She raises fascinating ideas and questions, things I had never thought about before and would probably never have thought about except for reading this. I will be thinking about this book for some time, I predict. Stylistically, this book is beautiful. It is written in first-person present tense, which normally annoys me to death, but Hoffman carries it off with intensely lyrical grace. Her analysis of American culture and the American 'psyche' is fascinating, completely unlike any other I've read, and touches some important truths. I take issue with her thoughts occasionally-- she's a secular Jewish New York intellectual type-- but the book is so captivating and rewarding that it is quite easy to put up with a few minor things. All in all, I recommend it heartily."
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