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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 Betweenenglish And Chinese. The Way Back / Bharati Mukherjee -- Yes And No / Amy Tan -- Trouble With Language / Josef Škvorecký -- Circus Biped / Bert Keizer -- French Without Tears / Luc Sante -- Prelude / Thomas Laqueur -- Recovering The Original / Ngugi Wa Thiong'o -- Split Self / Nicholas Papandreou -- Limpid Blue, Poppy / M.j. Fitzgerald -- Personal Singular / Ha-yun Jung -- On Being An Orphaned Writer / Louis Begley -- The Mother Tongue Between Two Slices Of Rye / Gary Shteyngart -- Boswell And Mrs. Miller / James Campbell -- Footnotes To A Double Life / Ariel Dorfman -- My Yiddish / Leonard Michaels. Edited And With An Introduction By Wendy Lesser.

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Author

and with an introduction by Wendy Lesser

Publisher

New York: Pantheon Books

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400033232

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.67 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14