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Three New Memoirs Reveal the ‘Vertigo’ of Life in the Diaspora

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Three New Memoirs Reveal the ‘Vertigo’ of Life in the Diaspora
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/books/review/crying-in-h-mart-michelle-zauner-my-broken-language-quiara-alegria-hudes-nuestra-america-claudio-lomnitz.html
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The New York Times
Issued Date
June 01, 2021
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UNITED STATES
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Michelle Zauner

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  • Michelle Zauner
  • Birth : 1989 ~ -
  • Occupation : Musician, Director, Author
  • First Name : Michelle
  • Family Name : Zauner
  • Korean Name : Michelle Zauner
  • ISNI : -
  • Works : 4
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NUESTRA AMÉRICA My Family in the Vertigo of Translation By Claudio Lomnitz 445 pp. Other Press. $27.99. First published in Spanish in 2018, Lomnitz’s family memoir is an immersion in the Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora. The vertigo teased in the subtitle holds true both for the book itself — the author based this version on an English translation by Vincent Barletta — and for the challenges it documents, of sustaining kinship and community across four continents and six languages that also include Yiddish, Russian, German and French. A professor of anthropology at Columbia University and a columnist for Mexico City’s La Jornada, Lomnitz writes a multigenerational story from the perspective of a descendant “born in a sea of lin....

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