Results for "Hoffman, Eva"

A compelling personal introduction to the life and work of Nobel Prize-winning writer Czeslaw Milosz from his fellow Polish exile and acclaimed writer Eva Hoffman Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the ... Read More about On Czeslaw Milosz: Visions from the Other Europe (Writers on Writers #14)

For the first time, Etty Hillesum's diary and letters appear together to give us the fullest possible portrait of this extraordinary woman in the midst of World War II. In the darkest years of Nazi occupation and genocide, Etty Hillesum remained a celebrant of life whose lucid intelligence, sympathy... Read More about Etty Hillesum: An Interrupted Life and Letters from Westerbork

An inventive literary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplaceWinner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation For about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabr ck were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Sa... Read More about Osnabrück Station to Jerusalem

Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series Time has always been the great given, the element that establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be circum... Read More about Time: Big Ideas, Small Books (BIG IDEAS//small books)

“A marvelously thoughtful book . . . It is not just about emigrants and refugees. It is about us all.” –The New York Times When her parents brought her from the war-ravaged, faded elegance of her native Cracow in 1959 to settle in well-manicured, suburban Vancouver, Eva Hoffman was thirteen years o... Read More about Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

In the latest installment of the acclaimed School of Life series, learn how to make peace with your down time—and even benefit from it. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing, but in the modern world the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hyperactive, over-s... Read More about How to Be Bored (The School of Life)