Samantha Ellis: Chopping Onions on My Heart

Cover: 9781784745028 | Chopping Onions on My Heart | On Losing and Preserving Culture | Ellis

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'I couldn't put it down' RUKMINI IYER'I loved this book so much... Think: The Body Keeps the Score in practice not theory' ELLA RISBRIDGERSamantha's mother tongue is dying out. An urgent need to find out more becomes an expansive investigation into how to keep hold of her culture - and when to let it goThe daughter of Iraqi Jewish refugees, Samantha grew up surrounded by the noisy, vivid, hot sounds of Judeo-Iraqi Arabic. A language that's now on the verge of extinction. The realisation that she won't be able to tell her son he's 'living in the days of the aubergines' or 'chopping onions on my heart' opens the floodgates. The questions keep coming. How can she pass on the stories without passing on the trauma of displacement? Will her son ever love mango pickle?In her search for answers Samantha encounters demon bowls, the perils of kohl and the unexpected joys of fusion food. Her journey transports us from the clamour of Noah's Ark to the calm of the British Museum, from the Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages to the banks of the River Tigris. As Samantha considers what we lose and keep, she also asks what we might need to let go of to preserve our culture and ourselves. This is a life-affirming memoir about resilience and repair, and the healing power of dancing to our ancestors' music, cooking up their recipes and sharing their stories. 'A moving and resonant lament for the past but also a thought-provoking siren call for the future' ANNE SEBBA'Urgent, alive, propulsive. I adored it' MARINA BENJAMIN

Über den Autor

The daughter of Iraqi-Jewish refugees, Samantha Ellis is the author of the books How to be a Heroine and Take Courage and her plays include How to Date a Feminist, Cling to me Like Ivy and Operation Magic Carpet. Her journalism has appeared in the Guardian, TLS, Spectator, Literary Review and more. She worked on the first two Paddington films. She lives in London.

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Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781784745028
ISBN-10:	1784745022
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ellis, Samantha
Hersteller:	Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	220 x 138 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Samantha Ellis
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,392 kg

Artikel-ID: 131839998

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781784745028
ISBN-10:	1784745022
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Ellis, Samantha
Hersteller:	Vintage Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	220 x 138 x 35 mm
Von/Mit:	Samantha Ellis
Erscheinungsdatum:	03.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,392 kg