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A review by akaasia
New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani
5.0
I’ve read and reread this book more than a dozen times now and I cannot begin to tell you how much I love it.
How important language is! Imagine if you lost you language, your words; your whole identity is gone. Marani takes you along to see what it takes to reclaim your identity through a language and through a language, culture and origin stories which have helped shape the people who claim the language as their own.
From the very first reading I did feel the misguided attempts of Sampo to grapple with the Finnish language were doomed to ring hollow. For surely, if he were a Finn, should the words not rouse even the hint of a memory?
I love this translation, the use of language is so beautiful I have sentence after sentence after passage after turn of phrase underlined in the book. Do yourself a favour a read this. More than once.
How important language is! Imagine if you lost you language, your words; your whole identity is gone. Marani takes you along to see what it takes to reclaim your identity through a language and through a language, culture and origin stories which have helped shape the people who claim the language as their own.
From the very first reading I did feel the misguided attempts of Sampo to grapple with the Finnish language were doomed to ring hollow. For surely, if he were a Finn, should the words not rouse even the hint of a memory?
I love this translation, the use of language is so beautiful I have sentence after sentence after passage after turn of phrase underlined in the book. Do yourself a favour a read this. More than once.