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Books by Elena Lappin
  | | What Language Do I Dream In? A Memoir by Elena Lappin Hardcover, 310 Pages, Published 2017 by Counterpoint ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-911-8, ISBN: 1-61902-911-1 "Taking its title from a question often asked of polyglots, What Language Do I Dream In? is Elena Lappin's stunning memoir about how language runs throughout memory and family history to form identity. Lappin’s life could be described as five languages in search of an author”, and as a multiple émigré, her decision to write in English was the result of many wanderings. Russian, Czech, German, Hebrew, and finally, English: each language ..." |
 | | What Language Do I Dream In? My Family's Secret History by Elena Lappin Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Virago ISBN-13: 978-1-84408-578-1, ISBN: 1-84408-578-3 "Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has lived in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United States. As a multiple emigre, her decision to write in English was the unexpected result of many wanderings, and this memoir tells the story of finding a voice in a language that is not one's own., Russian, Czech, German, Hebrew, an ..." |
 | | What Language Do You Dream In? by Elena Lappin Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2012 by Virago Press (Uk) ISBN-13: 978-1-84408-577-4, ISBN: 1-84408-577-5 "'My life could be described as "five languages in search of an author". I was born into Russian; transposed into Czech, then German; introduced to Hebrew; and finally adopted by English.' Elena Lappin was born in Russia. Her parents speak Russian to one another, and to their children. Elena speaks Czech to her brother, but he writes in German and she writes in English. What does it mean to be brought up in family that speaks several d ..." |
 | | Foreign Brides(1st Edition) Stories by Elena Lappin Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2000 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-312-26737-7, ISBN: 0-312-26737-1 "There are some short-story writers who seem too knowing, too eager to nudge the reader in the ribs with an authorial elbow. Others seem not knowing enough, as if they'd never quite gotten a purchase on their material. But in her first collection, Foreign Brides, Elena Lappin has already discovered the golden mean. Her tales of emigrant life--and more specifically, intermarriage among the tribes of Israel, Russia, England, and the United ..." |
 | | The Diary of Petr Ginz(Reprint) by Petr Ginz, Chava Pressburger, Elena Lappin, Jonathan Safran Foer Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2008 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4360-0, ISBN: 0-8021-4360-1 "Not since Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl has such an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny come to light. As a fourteen-year-old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully kept a diary that captured the increasingly precarious texture of daily life. His stunningly mature paintings, drawings, and writings reflect his insatiable appetite for learning and ex ..." |
 | | The Diary of Petr Ginz(1st Edition) by Chava Pressburger, Elena Lappin, Jonathan Safran Foer, Petr Ginz, Petr/ Lappin, Peter Ginz Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2007 by Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87113-966-5, ISBN: 0-87113-966-9 "Lost for sixty years in a Prague attic, this secret diary of a teenage prodigy killed at Auschwitz is an extraordinary literary discovery, an intimately candid, deeply affecting account of a childhood compromised by Nazi tyranny. As a fourteen-year old Jewish boy living in Prague in the early 1940s, Petr Ginz dutifully records the increasingly precarious texture of daily life. With a childâs keen eye for the absurd and the tragic, he ..." |
 | | The Nose(Updated) by Elena Lappin Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37117-9, ISBN: 0-330-37117-7 |
 | | Foreign Brides(Updated) by Elena Lappin Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2000 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37119-3, ISBN: 0-330-37119-3 "In "Foreign Brides", women (and men) cope with marriage across cultures in London, New York, and a constellation of European and Israeli cities." |
 | | Jewish Voices, German Words(1st Edition) Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Germany and Austria by Elena Lappin, Krishna Winston Hardcover, 301 Pages, Published 1994 by Catbird Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-945774-23-5, ISBN: 0-945774-23-0 "Book by" |
 | | What Language Do I Dream In? A Memoir by Elena Lappin Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2016 by Virago ISBN-13: 978-0-349-00820-2, ISBN: 0-349-00820-5 "Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has lived in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Israel, Canada, and the United States. As a multiple émigré, her decision to write in English was the unexpected result of many wanderings, and this memoir tells the story of finding a voice in a language that is not one's own. Russian, Czech, German, Hebrew, and ..." |
 | | The Nose(1st Edition) by Elena Lappin Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by Picador Import ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37116-2, ISBN: 0-330-37116-9 |
 | | Daylight in Nightclub Inferno(1st Edition) Czech Fiction from the Post-Kundera Generation by Elena Lappin Paperback, 307 Pages, Published 1997 by Catbird Press ISBN-13: 978-0-945774-33-4, ISBN: 0-945774-33-8 "The first English-language collection of stories and novel excerpts by the best and most representative younger Czech writers, this volume reveals that, unlike the older generation, these writers have not been disillusioned; their darkness comes not from the disappointment of hopes, but from never having had any. This collection also introduces a new generation of American Czech-into-English translators and contains a few bonus selectio ..." |
 | | What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2017 by Harpercollins Publishers International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-55468-463-2, ISBN: 1-55468-463-3 "A moving and erudite memoir on the importance of language to who we are, and an ode to the language that has given the author a home in exileElena Lappin’s life could be described as “five languages in search of an author.” She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has lived in Czechoslovakia, Germany, Israel, Canada and the United States. As a multiple émigré, her decision to write in English was the unexpected result of ..." |
 | | What Language Do You Dream In? A Memoir by Elena Lappin Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 2099 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-28885-3, ISBN: 0-374-28885-2 "A multiple emigre, Elena Lappin could describe her life as "five languages in search of an author." She was born into Russian; transposed into Czech, then German; introduced to Hebrew; and, finally, adopted by English.Taking its title from a question once asked of her, "What Language Do You Dream In? "is Lappin's memoir about language and memory. It examines her life through the prism of the languages through which she has experienced i ..." |
 | | The Diary of Petr Ginz, 1941-1942 by Chava Pressburger, Petr Ginz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Elena Lappin, Ginz Peter Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2007 by Atlantic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84354-553-8, ISBN: 1-84354-553-5 "Originally written in his own special code-language, Petr's diaries describe daily life for the Ginz family and document the introduction of anti-Jewish laws from a young child's point of view - pithy and unsentimental." |
 | | Foreign Bridges by Elena Lappin Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1999 by Picador ISBN-13: 978-0-330-37118-6, ISBN: 0-330-37118-5 |
 | | What Language Do I Dream In? by Elena Lappin 320 Pages, Published 2017 by Harpercollins ISBN-13: 978-1-4434-5402-5, ISBN: 1-4434-5402-8 "The story of Lappin’s identity is unexpectedly complicated by the discovery, in middle age, that her biological father was an American living in Russia." |
 | | What Language Do I Dream In? A Memoir by Elena Lappin 310 Pages, Published 2017 by Counterpoint Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61902-974-3, ISBN: 1-61902-974-X "He was selfdeprecating about his own German, saying that he 'never lost his local dialect'. Had he moved to a serious place like Hanover or Hamburg, his German would have evolved, he said. But because he left for England it remained as it was – implying that there was an archaic quality to his native language. In his own way, he considered it to have ossified, or frozen. The moderator, Denis Scheck, asked us interesting questions. ..." |
 | | The Nose by Elena Lappin 240 Pages, Published 2016 by Hachette Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-349-00887-5, ISBN: 0-349-00887-6 "Her life seems quite settled until she accepts the job of editor on an Anglo-Jewish magazine called The Nose. Things here are not what they seem, and Natasha soon discovers that The Nose is a battlefield of near-mythic proportions." |
 | | Foreign Brides by Elena Lappin 224 Pages, Published 2016 by Virago ISBN-13: 978-0-349-00886-8, ISBN: 0-349-00886-8 "Women (and men) cope with foreign marriages in Elena Lappin's shrewd domestic comedies of the absurd, set in London, New York, and a constellation of European and Israeli cities." |
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