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As Eun Ji translates the letters, she looks to history—her grandmother Jun’s years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the horrors her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre—and to poetry, as well as her own lived experience to answer questions inside all of us. Where do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find words—in Korean, Japanese, English, or any language—to articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love? Eun Ji Koh fearlessly grapples with forgiveness, reconciliation, legacy, and intergenerational trauma, arriving at insights that are essential reading for anyone who has ever had to balance love, longing, heartbreak, and joy.
The Magical Language of Others weaves a profound tale of hard-won selfhood and our deep bonds to family, place, and language, introducing—in Eun Ji Koh—a singular, incandescent voice.
Titre original : The Magical Language of Others (2020)
2020 [E-book] Editions Tin House
Langue anglaise | 209 pages | Format : ePub | ISBN : 9781947793385
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- Mlle Alice Le 11 Mars 2024 à 10:07
J'ai trouvé le récit un peu éparpillé, j'aurais vraiment préféré rester uniquement sur le sujet mère/fille et la santé mentale de l'autrice.
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