Letters of transit
Subtitle: reflections on exile, identity, language, and loss
By: edited by André Aciman.
Contributors: Aciman, André.; New York Public Library.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Exiles.; Refugees.; Emigration and immigration.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Published in collaboration with The New York Public Library."
" ... essays originally delivered in The New York Public Library's lecture series 'Letters of Transit'"--P. [9].
Table of contents: title: Editor's foreword: Permanent transients; title: Shadow cities / André Aciman; title: The new nomads / Eva Hoffman; title: Imagining homelands / Bharati Mukherjee; title: No reconciliation allowed / Edward W. Said; title: Refugees / Charles Simic.