Thus, the enterprising college sophomore designs her own study-abroad program in a country which has no official exchange programs with the United States.
This, they say, is "the test of a language: you know it when it moves you." Her professors talk about a text that brings readers to tears. Emily Robbins' A Word for Loveis a beautifully crafted story of a young American's quest to master Arabic and "grow a larger heart." Her poetic style plunges the reader into the scene, her tone reminiscent of Camus in its intimate yet strangely anonymous representation of the relationship of host and guest, insider and outsider, in an unnamed country that occupies its neighbor.Īs a 20-year-old student, Bea adores the precision of the Arabic language and "the way the words leaf out like spring from three-letter roots" how the words for world and tenderness branch out from the root word for knowledge how the word for friendship morphs into truth and how togetherness becomes university and Friday prayer.
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