{"product_id":"9781770564411","title":"Magyarazni","description":"\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 \u003cp\u003e‘Because translation between cultures is always fraught – and yet somehow translate we must – \u003cem\u003eMagyarázni\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003eMagyarázni\u003c\/em\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 \u003cp\u003e‘Familiar but out of reach, \u003cem\u003eMagyarázni\u003c\/em\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. \u003cem\u003eMagyarázni\u003c\/em\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":"Default Title","offer_id":47135288623344,"sku":"9781770564411","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781770564411_p0.jpg?v=1763706569","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781770564411","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}