Your Tongue Is Still Yours: Reflections On Language

by Dur e Aziz Amna

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'Surkh gulaaban day mausam vich,
Phulaan de rang kaalay.

(In the season of red roses,
These flowers are turning black.)'

Your Tongue Is Still Yours is a poetic meditation on language, regional cultures and how identity exists in the many layers between the two. Punjabi. Urdu. English. Arabic. Balti. Shina. Khowar. Wakhi.

Dur e Aziz Amna goes back to Pakistan, traversing its different regions before returning to New York, considering how language has shaped her past and how it might do the same for her children’s future.

  • ISBN10 1473578183
  • ISBN13 9781473578180
  • Publish Date 14 November 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Vintage Publishing
  • Imprint Vintage Digital
  • Format eBook (EPUB)
  • Pages 20
  • Language English