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Author Johannesson, Jessica Gaitán, author

Title How We Are Translated / Jessica Gaitán Johannesson
Published London ; Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Summary People say 'I'm sorry' all the time when it can mean both 'I'm sorry I hurt you' and 'I'm sorry someone else did something I have nothing to do with'. It's like the English language gave up on trying to find a word for sympathy which wasn't also the word for guilt. Swedish immigrant Kristin won't talk about the Project growing inside her. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend Ciaran won't speak English at all; he is trying to immerse himself in a Swedish språkbad language bath, to prepare for their future, whatever the fick that means. Their Edinburgh flat is starting to feel very small. As this young couple is forced to confront the thing that they are both avoiding, they must reckon with the bigger questions of the world outside, and their places in it
Audience General
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 15, 2022)
Subject Swedes -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Fiction
Couples -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- Fiction
Language and languages -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
English fiction.
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Fiction - Literary.
Fiction / Cultural Heritage.
Fiction - Psychological.
Man-woman relationships
Swedes
Language and languages
Couples
English fiction
Modern & contemporary fiction.
Fiction in translation.
Contemporary lifestyle fiction.
Narrative theme: Interior life.
Narrative theme: Sense of place.
Narrative theme: Social issues.
SUBJECT Edinburgh (Scotland) -- Fiction
Subject Scotland -- Edinburgh
Genre/Form Electronic books
Fiction
Domestic fiction
Domestic fiction.
Form Electronic book
Author Scribe Publications.
ISBN 9781925938784
1925938786