Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: Immigration
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Portable Homelands: A Conversation Between Writers
Elif Shafak and Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah speak to belonging, language, and the many meanings of home
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My Year Reading Asia
Japan’s imperialism and other discoveries after 15 books and 10 countries in the Asian continent
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Book Review: Home Fire, or being Pakistani in the UK
Kamila Shamsie mesmerizes us with an astonishing ending in this story about two Pakistani families tangled with the post-9/11 world in Europe.
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How My Reading Habits Have Changed Over Time – with charts (TTT)
A data analysis about my literary tastes
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Pachinko Review: the Challenging Life of Koreans in Japan
The saga of 4 generations of a Korean family over war and displacement
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The Challenging Task of Defining an Author’s Nationality
The problems I created for myself when I decided to expand my literary horizons
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On giving up your “real” name after immigrating
How I learned a different way to speak my name out of practicality- and the implications that come with it
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A day in the life of a truly multicultural city
How’s it like to bump into 10 nationalities per day in Toronto – and the struggle to pronounce people’s names
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How’s it Like to Live a Bilingual Life?
Why my phone keeps autocorrecting ‘some’ to ‘sobre’ and what to do with the 2 sets of grammar in your brain.
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Celebrating 3 Years in One Place
For the first time in my adult life, I’ve spent 3 years living in the same apartment. Here’s how I’m finally letting myself create some roots.
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