Lost in Translation
by Eva Hoffman

Just as she is entering adolescence, Eva Hoffman is uprooted from her native Cracow, a city of faded elegance, and brought to suburban Vancouver by her parents, who are Holocaust survivors. Hoffman’s autobiography is a classic American tale of assimilation and upward mobility together with an insightful examination of the effects of culture and language on one’s perceptions of one’s self and the outside world. Lost in Translation also provides a unique perspective on how the 1960s and ‘70s impacted the process of becoming an adult.