Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory by Sherry Simon National Jewish Book Award Winner and famine

and famine

linguistic

while also introducing more exotic spices and ingredients

The year is 1945

It is a deeply human odyssey that journeys from pre–Civil War Charleston

Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory by Sherry Simon National Jewish Book Award Winner and famineAll cities are multilingual, but there are some where language relations have a special importance. These are cities where more than one historically rooted language community lays claim to the territory of the city. This book focuses on four such linguistically divided cities: Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona, and Montreal. Though living with the ever present threat of conflict, these cities offer the possibility of creative interaction across competing