The Magical Language of Others - A Memoir

EJ Koh

Tin House Books

2020

203 páginas

6h 46m

ISBN-13: 9781947793385

A tale of deep bonds to family, place, language—of hard-won selfhood told by a singular, incandescent voice.
After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji’s parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family’s new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother’s absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love—letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.

The letters lay bare the impact of her mother’s departure, as Eun Ji gets to know the woman who raised her and left her behind. Eun Ji is a student, a traveler, a dancer, a poet, and a daughter coming to terms not only with her parents’ prolonged absence, but her family’s history: her grandmother’s Jun’s years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the horrors her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre. Where, Koh asks, do the stories of our mo

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A beleza na Mágica Linguagem dos outros

Esse livro é simplesmente lindo!! Você consegue se identificar e se conectar com os personagens de uma forma muito natural e confortável, acho que "conforto" é a palavra que define o que eu senti durante a leitura, sempre vou voltar para reler citações e trechos que eu deixei marcados.