{"product_id":"magyarazni-9781552453278","title":"Magyarázni","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Helen Hajnoczky\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Coach House Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe word \"magyarázni\" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means \"to explain\" in Hungarian, but translates literally as \"make it Hungarian.\" This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's like to be \"made Hungarian\" by growing up with a parent who immigrated to North America as a refugee. In forty-five folk-art visual poems each paired with a written poem, Hajnoczky reveals the beauty and tension of first-generation cultural identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Because translation between cultures is always fraught - and yet somehow translate we must - \u003ci\u003eMagyarázni\u003c\/i\u003e explores language and cultural identity in the permeable space fomenting between family and society, word and image initiating us into a new alphabet of lived meaning. In reading we wonder along with \u003ci\u003eMagyarázni\u003c\/i\u003e's wandering \"you,\" we care and get entangled in the \"brambles of your cursive,\" we too are \"made Hungarian.\"'\u003cbr\u003e - Oana Avasilichioaei\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Familiar but out of reach, \u003ci\u003eMagyarázni\u003c\/i\u003e reforms the language of home on the tip of your tongue, a language of knotted cursive and bubbled syntax; folksong and stovetop. Each letter blossoms as a hand-drawn flower and a sputtering drone of spits and pith. \u003ci\u003eMagyarázni\u003c\/i\u003e punctuates every I with a poppy seed, every C with the splinter­ed foil of a solemn treat. Mournful and personal, Magyarázni calls out for the language of family.'\u003cbr\u003e - Derek Beaulieu\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999606161559,"sku":"9781552453278","price":861.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781552453278.webp?v=1783601186","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/magyarazni-9781552453278","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}