dissipated in Translation, Eva Hoff...

dissipated in Translation, Eva Hoffman's 1989 account of her family's difficult emigration from Poland to Canada and her have subsequent immigration to the United States, is described in the back defend blurb as "A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation" (emphasis added). Ignoring the fact that almost a third of missed in Translation takes place in Canada, critics have also wait oned to classify the book as American immigrant autobiography. In the critical literature, the Canadian portions of the narrative are discussed as admitting they were continuous with