Book Launch: Eugene Ostashevsky. Alphabet Soup: The Translingual Sayings of Emma and Eva as Recorded by Their Father

Book Launch: Eugene Ostashevsky. Alphabet Soup: The Translingual Sayings of Emma and Eva as Recorded by Their Father (New York – Helsinki: Tamizdat Project & Rab-Rab Press, 2026).

Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls written down by their poet father. As their Turkish-German-Russian-American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin.

“A marvelous book! Language is itself a poet: this is something that children know (as do some poets).” — Yoko Tawada, author of Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

“A delightful collection of mixed-language creations that will resonate with parents raising bilingual kids.” — Aneta Pavlenko, author of The Bilingual Mind: And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought