{"product_id":"ostashevsky-eugene-alphabet-spb","title":"Ostashevsky, Eugene: Alphabet Soup","description":"\u003cp\u003eTamizdat Project, paperback\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productPageHeader\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productPageHeader__authors\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eEdited by Elina Alster, Yasha Klots and Ainsley Morse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"productPageHeader__authors\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 15, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"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 witness their metamorphoses from toddlers to teenagers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an essay and poems by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA co-publication with Rab-Rab Press (Helsinki).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A marvelous book! Language is itself a poet: this is something that children know (as do some poets).” Yoko Tawada, author of \"Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A delightful collection of mixed-language creations that will resonate with parents raising bilingual kids.” Aneta Pavlenko, author of \"The Bilingual Mind: And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44764911140887,"sku":"9798991662338","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/1772908759-900.png?v=1773947587","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/ostashevsky-eugene-alphabet-spb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}