On Borrowed Words - Hardcover

Stavans, Ilan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670877638 ISBN 13: 9780670877638

Publisher: Viking, 1998

Synopsis

Tracing his own life and cultural background from the perspective of language and words, that author of The Hispanic Condition traces his family's odyssey from Eastern Europe to the Jewish ghetto of Mexico City and his own years as a student activist, Zionist in Israel, theology student in New York, and current career as a scholar and author. 12,500 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"A meditation on how language defines not just the words we use but the places we come from." --The New York Times Book Review

"Stavans's Mexico . . . is a treacherous but vivid world seen through the eyes of a gifted child; his subsequent encounter with America makes the New World seem-astonishingly-new." James Atlas, author of Bellow: A Biography

About the Author:

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College and the author or editor of numerous books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0670877638
• ISBN 13: 9780670877638
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272