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Eva Hoffman
Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: For me, form follows from the subject.

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PUBLISHED: May.01.2009

Appassionata

Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist, whose performances are marked by a rare responsiveness to the complexities of her art, and its intensities of feeling. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the compelling musical realm she deeply inhabits, and her fragmented itinerant artist's life, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels, and brief,...

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PUBLISHED: Mar.01.1990

Lost in Translation

This remarkable book is Eva Hoffman's personal story of her experiences as an emigre who loses and remakes her identity in a new land and translates her sense of self into a new culture and a different language. From Publisher's Weekly: Daughter of Holocaust survivors, the author, a New York Times Book Review editor, lost her sense of place and belonging when she emigrated with...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.2007

Shtetl

In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she looks at the fascinating experiments in multicultural coexistence—still relevant to us...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2005

After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocost

As the Holocaust recedes in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the next generation. How should they, in turn, convey its knowledge to others? What are the effects of a traumatic past on its inheritors? And what are the second-generation's responsibilities to its received memories? In this meditation on the long aftermath of...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.27.2004

The Secret

The time is 2022, the place is Chicago, and Iris Surrey has an unusually close relationship with her chilly mother, Elizabeth. At 17, Iris is wearying of the odd stares she triggers in others, especially when her look-alike mother is with her. Iris wants to learn the identity of her father, which, alas, is not possible; the reader will figure out before Iris does that she is the...

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PUBLISHED: Oct.01.1994

Exit into History: A Journey Through the New Eastern Europe

Hoffman here proves herself a first-rate guide to Eastern Europe, offering vivid snapshots of conditions in the former Soviet satellites. Visiting her native Poland, she spends time with the co-editor of one of the country's most successful newspapers, who describes her hellish past hiding in the underground; interviews a handful of women who demonstrate against an upcoming bill (...

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Jun.28.2009

Published by The New York Times Sunday Book Review

Review of Appassionata "How do the educated citizens of the privileged West understand and respond to the murky wars on their borders? Is it better to be rational and detached on...

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About Eva

Eva Hoffman grew up in Cracow, Poland, where she studied music intensively before emigrating in her teens to Canada and then the United States. After receiving her B.A. from Rice University and her Ph. D. in English and American literature from Harvard...

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Fiction, non-fiction, journalism: For me, form follows from the subject.