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For my English speaking friends: I picked up this book when I am about to move to Amsterdam. The author tells the story of a person fleeing from the Yugoslav wars and found herself as language professor in Amsterdam. Before reading it I was expecting it to be a light read, something along the lines of observations of Dutch culture. From the very beginning I realized it is way more than that. I was surprised by how deep this book touched me. The complicated relationships and experience of home, trauma from home, language, languages, life in a foreign land, and the pain, from the homeland, within our own people, and within ourselves.
这个中文译版读起来又顺畅又深厚。比起真枪实弹的内战、战争，我不知道自己逃离的压迫属于什么程度的灾难，我恐怕称不上在流亡。似乎我在感到了理论性的危险时就选择了逃离。属于当代中国的移民文学会是怎么样的？我们的人也一心扑在生活遗忘上，是我还没有看到谁在用文学记录吗？
“如果回家确实就是死亡——象征或现实意义上的死亡——流亡意味着失败，而出发的那一刻是我们唯一真正被赋予自由的时刻呢？如果真是这样，我们该怎么办？再说我们又是谁呢？”