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A captivating portrait of contemporary New York City, the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet, told through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages.
Gorgeous...Perlin builds a compelling case for why preserving [languages] matters not just for the speakers, but for humanity itself
Superb...Wonderfully rich, Language City is in part an introduction to the diverse ways different languages work
Exuberant, radical...His evocation of New York's gorgeous, messy, imperfect diversity made me long for someone to do the same for London
A welcome reminder of the importance and vibrancy of the crisscross of languages at work in a multicultural city
Enthralling . . .Readers will be engrossed
A spirited celebration of a polyglot city...A convincing argument for linguistic multiplicity
This is a guidebook to a secret New York in hundreds of languages, a map of the world written in the conversations of immigrants from places you've never heard of, a manifesto in defense of the value and beauty of the smallest language groups, a portrait of six particular speakers, and a celebration of what language is and these languages are. It's also a joyful, exciting narrative, and though Ross Perlin has wandered through so many languages, he writes this one, English, with vivid grace. Language City is a celebration of one city and all humanity, and you should read it
A work of sweeping ambition that succeeds on every level: reportorial, explanatory, stylistic, political
What a rich and explosively vital book. Now to all New York's other superlatives we can add "the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world."
Language City is a treasure. Each page brims with fascinating historical details that somehow manage to give New York more meaning and importance than it already had
Ross Perlin is a linguist, writer and translator. He has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, Harper's and n+1 and the Endangered Language Alliance has been covered by the New York Times, the New Yorker, BBC, NPR and many others. He is also the author of Intern Nation.
Gorgeous...Perlin builds a compelling case for why preserving [languages] matters not just for the speakers, but for humanity itself
Superb...Wonderfully rich, Language City is in part an introduction to the diverse ways different languages work
Exuberant, radical...His evocation of New York's gorgeous, messy, imperfect diversity made me long for someone to do the same for London
A welcome reminder of the importance and vibrancy of the crisscross of languages at work in a multicultural city
Enthralling . . .Readers will be engrossed
A spirited celebration of a polyglot city...A convincing argument for linguistic multiplicity
This is a guidebook to a secret New York in hundreds of languages, a map of the world written in the conversations of immigrants from places you've never heard of, a manifesto in defense of the value and beauty of the smallest language groups, a portrait of six particular speakers, and a celebration of what language is and these languages are. It's also a joyful, exciting narrative, and though Ross Perlin has wandered through so many languages, he writes this one, English, with vivid grace. Language City is a celebration of one city and all humanity, and you should read it
A work of sweeping ambition that succeeds on every level: reportorial, explanatory, stylistic, political
What a rich and explosively vital book. Now to all New York's other superlatives we can add "the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world."
Language City is a treasure. Each page brims with fascinating historical details that somehow manage to give New York more meaning and importance than it already had
Ross Perlin is a linguist, writer and translator. He has written for the New York Times, the Guardian, Harper's and n+1 and the Endangered Language Alliance has been covered by the New York Times, the New Yorker, BBC, NPR and many others. He is also the author of Intern Nation.