{"title":"Eugene Ostashevsky","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"alphabet-soup-the-translingual-sayings-of-emma-and-eva-as-recorded-by-their-father","title":"Alphabet Soup. The Translingual Sayings of Emma and Eva as Recorded by Their Father","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlphabet Soup\u003c\/i\u003e collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father. As their Turkish-German-Russian-American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin. Does who we are determine the way we speak — or is it the other way around? \u003ci\u003eAlphabet Soup \u003c\/i\u003eshows us the girls’ language as it changes, letting us witness their metamorphoses from toddlers to teenagers. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an essay and poems by the author. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A marvelous book! Language is itself a poet: this is something that children know (as do some poets).” \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- Yoko Tawada, author of \u003ci\u003eExophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A delightful collection of mixed-language creations that will resonate with parents raising bilingual kids.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-- Aneta Pavlenko, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bilingual Mind: And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEugene Ostashevsky was born in Leningrad, grew up in New York, and now commutes between New York and Berlin. His latest poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e(Carcanet and NYRB Poets, 2022), explores the affects of living in a non-native language on emotions, parenting, and identity. An earlier book, \u003ci\u003eThe Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi\u003c\/i\u003e (NYRB Poets, 2017), examines the challenges of communication between pirates and parrots. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tamizdat Project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58056960770435,"sku":"9798991662338","price":24.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0558\/7514\/1734\/files\/alphabet_soup.jpg?v=1778936152"}],"url":"https:\/\/babelbooksberlin.com\/collections\/eugene-ostashevsky.oembed","provider":"Babel Books Berlin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}