num_pages: 256
description: A collection of original essays reflects on their writers' formative experiences of language and culture, from Bharati Mukherjee's appreciation of the Bangla language after the Hindu-Muslim riots of 1946, to Amy Tan's frustration with comparisons between English and Chinese, to Josef Skvorecký's decision to learn English so he could write a fan letter. 25,000 first printing.
language: English
title: The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues
titlecomplete: The Genius of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect on Their Mother Tongues
genres: Biography, Memoir, Essays, Anthologies, Biography Memoir, Writing, Language, Linguistics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 540
publisher: Pantheon