How We Are Translated - Jessica Gaitan Johannesson

LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEDo you ever feel like you’re not speaking the same language?Swedish immigrant Kristin won’t talk about her pregnancy. Her Brazilian-born Scottish boyfriend Ciaran won’t speak English at all; he is trying to immerse himself in a sprÃ¥kbad or ‘language bath’, covering their Edinburgh apartment in post-it notes to teach himself Swedish. As this young couple is forced to confront the thing that they are both avoiding, they must reckon with the bigger... Zobrazit více