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“Peter Theroux, as a brilliant translator and writer, has taught western readers about the Arabic world. Now, with Translating LA, Theroux crosses new borders―in southern California. With great wit and energy, he shows us the Los Angeles we have not understood well enough. He deconstructs and reconstructs the city famous for its separate freeway exits until finally and for the first time (like newcomers from a foreign land) we see Los Angeles whole.” ―Richard Rodriguez
At a time when it is America’s leading candidate for the star role of Armageddon, Los Angeles still reigns as the destination par excellence and de facto trendsetter for the United States. Despite its curse of ancient and modern-day plagues―what other city can claim the rights to earthquakes and smog as well as riots and gang warfare?―Los Angeles remains the mythical source for the blood flowing through the American heart: the "pot of gold" that lies on the other coast of the rainbow. In Translating LA, Peter Theroux leads us beyond the rainbow in an affectionate and anecdotal guide to the human centers of Los Angeles. By bringing LA's thousand-and-one ethnic enclaves together with its broad range of social classes, Theroux understands LA by stretching across its fault lines with results that are "surprising and illuminating" (LA Reader). With its genuine sensitivity towards past, present, and future, Translating LA searches the souls of Angelenos to deliver a remarkable commentary on America's moDetails of the book - Translating LA: A Tour of the Rainbow City Peter Theroux Author
EAN (ISBN-13): 9780393313949
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0393313948
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Publishing year: 1995
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. Core >1
276 Pages
Weight: 0,349 kg
Language: eng/Englisch
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Book author: theroux peter, humble, peter norton, peter gäng
Book title: translating, city tour
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