The Magical Language Of Others

The Magical Language Of Others

Jan 07, 2020 The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Apr 04, 2020 The Magical Language of Others (Tin House, 1/7/20) alternates between Koh's translations of the Korean letters written to her by her mother during their period of separation and Koh's narrative chapters, which recount her childhood and her family history, and explore the ways that language, hunger, hidden identities, and intergenerational trauma link the women in her family. December 2020 Perspectives Newsletter I n her memoir The Magical Language of Others (2020), E. Koh explores the repercussions of her parents' decision to return to Korea, leaving E. And her older brother in the US when she was 15 years old.
DescriptionThe Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters in Korean over the years seeking forgiveness and love--letters Eun Ji cannot fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.
As Eun Ji translates the letters, she looks to history--her grandmother Jun's years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the loss and destruction 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?
The Magical Language of Others What is the use of anydesk app. 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.
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Ancient Magical LanguagesTin House Books
January 07, 2020
203
5.8 X 0.9 X 8.9 inches | 0.8 pounds
English
Hardcover
9781947793385
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Become an affiliateAbout the AuthorE. J. Koh is the author of the poetry collection A Lesser Love, winner of the Pleiades Press Editors Prize, and co-translator of Yi Won's The World's Lightest Motorcycle, forthcoming from Zephyr Press. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and World Literature Today, among others. She earned her MFA in Literary Translation and Creative Writing from Columbia University, and is completing the PhD program at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is a recipient of MacDowell and Kundiman fellowships.
ReviewsThe Magical Language of Others is an exquisite, challenging, and stunning memoir. E. J. Koh intricately melds her personal story with a broader view of Korean history. Through these pages, you are asked to experience one family's heartbreak, trauma, and complex love for each other. This memoir will pierce you.--Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me
A powerful look at family, culture, language, and selfhood.
A coming-of-age story, a family story, and a meditation on language and translation, with an emotional range to match.--Caitlin Horrocks, The Vexations
A haunting, gorgeous narrative..lushly told. Brilliant.
Magnificent. .. This is a memoir that needs to be read more than once.
Koh draws on a rich mastery of language and contemplation as a poet, weaving a powerful narrative of strength and longing that collapses generations of history and distance in one brilliant reckoning of what it means to forgive and still remain tender.
Gorgeous, lyrical, painful, poignant and hopeful.
The Magical Language of Others is a masterpiece, a love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere. 

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OverviewWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardWe will look back at our time apart and laugh together and be sad, but we will have many stories. If you have no suffering, you have no story to tell—isn't it true?
The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters in Korean over the years seeking forgiveness and love—letters Eun Ji cannot fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.

Become an affiliateAbout the AuthorE. J. Koh is the author of the poetry collection A Lesser Love, winner of the Pleiades Press Editors Prize, and co-translator of Yi Won's The World's Lightest Motorcycle, forthcoming from Zephyr Press. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and World Literature Today, among others. She earned her MFA in Literary Translation and Creative Writing from Columbia University, and is completing the PhD program at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is a recipient of MacDowell and Kundiman fellowships.
ReviewsThe Magical Language of Others is an exquisite, challenging, and stunning memoir. E. J. Koh intricately melds her personal story with a broader view of Korean history. Through these pages, you are asked to experience one family's heartbreak, trauma, and complex love for each other. This memoir will pierce you.--Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me
A powerful look at family, culture, language, and selfhood.
A coming-of-age story, a family story, and a meditation on language and translation, with an emotional range to match.--Caitlin Horrocks, The Vexations
A haunting, gorgeous narrative..lushly told. Brilliant.
Magnificent. .. This is a memoir that needs to be read more than once.
Koh draws on a rich mastery of language and contemplation as a poet, weaving a powerful narrative of strength and longing that collapses generations of history and distance in one brilliant reckoning of what it means to forgive and still remain tender.
Gorgeous, lyrical, painful, poignant and hopeful.
The Magical Language of Others is a masterpiece, a love letter to mothers and daughters everywhere. 
The Magical Language Of Others A Memoir Pdf Conversation Starters from ReadingGroupChoices.comRead More
OverviewWinner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association AwardWe will look back at our time apart and laugh together and be sad, but we will have many stories. If you have no suffering, you have no story to tell—isn't it true?
The Magical Language of Others is a powerful and aching love story in letters, from mother to daughter. After living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji Koh's parents return to South Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in California. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself abandoned and adrift in a world made strange by her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters in Korean over the years seeking forgiveness and love—letters Eun Ji cannot fully understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box.
The Magical Language Of Others Koh ReviewAs Eun Ji translates the letters, she looks to history—her grandmother Jun's years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the loss and destruction 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. Wps office outlook. 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?
The Magical Language Of Others PdfThe 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.