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Crossing Borders by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Category: Languages and Reference
"What an astonishing collection, it seemed as if I could drink it--these pieces exude such humanness, refer effortlessly to the tender place that exists in between languages, and somehow leave you with both everything and nothing to say." --Ella Frances Sanders, author of Lost in Translation In Joyce C ...Show more
The Four Questions by Lynne Sharon Schwartz; Ori Sherman (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books
Every year when families gather for the Passover holiday, the youngest child poses that question as part of the poetic Four Questions near the start of the Seder. The answers are no less than the story of a people bound in slavery, their suffering in a foreign land, and their ultimate liberation--the st ...Show more
Today's Towers of Babel - Essays and Stories of Translation, Misunderstanding and Misbehavior by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Category: Reference
In Joyce Carol Oates's story "The Translation," a traveler to an Eastern European country falls in love with a woman he gets to know through an interpreter. In Lydia Davis's "French Lesson I: Le Meurtre," what begins as a lesson in beginner's French takes a sinister turn. In the essay "On Translating an ...Show more
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