Join n+1 on Sunday, April 26 for a celebration Alphabet Soup: The Translingual Sayings of Emma and Eva as Recorded by Their Father, Eugene Ostashevsky, published by Tamizdat Project and Rab-Rab Press. Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls written down by their poet father. As their Turkish-German-Russian-American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin.
Ostashevsky will discuss and read from Alphabet Soup, and copies of the book will be for sale, along with beer and wine. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are strongly encouraged. The n+1 office is wheelchair accessible. RSVP here.
Sunday, April 26
7 PM
n+1 office
37 Greenpoint Ave #316
Brooklyn
Praise for Alphabet Soup
“A marvelous book! Language is itself a poet: this is something that children know (as do some poets).” —Yoko Tawada, author of Exophony: Voyages Outside the Moth
“A delightful collection of mixed-language creations that will resonate with parents raising bilingual kids.” —Aneta Pavlenko, author of The Bilingual Mind: And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought