Dur e Aziz Amna

Your Tongue Is Still Yours (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections On Language

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2019 WINNER OF THE BODLEY HEAD FINANCIAL TIMES ESSAY PRIZE

'Surkh gulaaban day mausam vich,
Phulaan de rang kaalay.

(In the season of red roses,
These flowers are turning black.)'

Your Tongue Is Still Yours is a poetic meditation on language, regional cultures and how identity exists in the many layers between the two. Punjabi. Urdu. English. Arabic. Balti. Shina. Khowar. Wakhi.

Dur e Aziz Amna goes back to Pakistan, traversing its different regions before returning to New York, considering how language has shaped her past and how it might do the same for her children's future.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Seitenzahl: 20
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473578180
• Artikelnr.: 57915993

Autorenporträt

Dur e Aziz Amna is a writer based between Rawalpindi and Ann Arbor. She was educated at Yale and is an MFA candidate at the University of Michigan Helen Zell Writers' Program. She is 27 years-old and is currently working on her first novel.

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