Alphabet Soup N.H. Pritchard dat hitte en ijzige kou

dat hitte en ijzige kou wil vermijden

Burcu Sahin (trans

translator Catherine Hammond often leads with the verb in English

through textual reproduction

of the hours of women’s and children’s lives

Alphabet Soup N.H. Pritchard dat hitte en ijzige kouEugene Ostashevsky Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father. As their Turkish German Russian American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin. Does who we are determine the way we speak or is it the other way around? Alphabet Soup shows us the girls language as it changes, letting us