商品描述
Looking back from today's perspective, I've had a blessed childhood. Growing up in Tbilisi, Georgia, my maternal grandmother told us, my brother and I, parables, proverbs, and folk stories full of wisdom. We learned from the life lessons tested over many centuries. That not only helped us indirectly to draw the parallels to any given situations, improve ourselves, and learn values and qualities meaningful to mankind's wellbeing, but also, it helped to grow our worldly perspectives and understanding of all that was around us. It taught us to think in metaphors, speak with similes, and express through poetry. With these blessed memories of engaging with some of the most popular works in Georgian literature, I would like to share my favorites in hopes that you too may absorb this fruitful knowledge.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
回顧今天的視角，我擁有一個幸福的童年。在喬治亞的第比利斯長大，我的外祖母常常給我和我的兄弟講述充滿智慧的寓言、諺語和民間故事。我們從這些經過數世紀考驗的生活教訓中學習。這不僅幫助我們間接地將其與任何情況進行類比，提升自我，學習對人類福祉有意義的價值觀和品質，還幫助我們擴展了對周遭世界的視野和理解。它教會我們用隱喻思考，用明喻表達，並通過詩歌來表達情感。懷著這些與喬治亞文學中一些最受歡迎作品互動的美好回憶，我想分享我最喜愛的作品，希望你也能吸收這些豐富的知識。
作者簡介
About the Author Maka Kartheiser (Kverenchkhiladze) was born in 1970 in Tbilisi, the capital city of the country Georgia. She experienced early life in this Soviet Union country and graduated from Tbilisi State University with a BA and MA in Arts of Georgian Language and Literature. In search of improving her life, she started to travel back and forth between the United States and Georgia. In 2004 she brought her three boys to Chicago and continued working as a nanny and caring for elders to support her children. She built new connections but kept working to preserve the culture, language, and the idea of being "Georgian." Maka sought a state of being where she would fully be able to use her abilities and education. After being a single mom for eight years, she remarried. Combining two cultures and traditions of different families and children has been an experience never to be forgotten. Living in a small town of Johnsburg, Illinois, raising four young men, and working as a substitute teacher, she shares her knowledge and experiences with the youth of that community. Maka Kartheiser, cofounder of the Georgian Cultural Center in Chicagoland, was awarded "Successful Emigrant Woman" for her tireless care of Georgian culture, language, and values among emigrants and their families, on March 13, 2017. A Soul Divided is her fourth book. Maka published her first memoir, The Journey to America, in 2012 in Tbilisi, Georgia, with Universali Publisher; the poem anthology Soul in Space, in 2014 in Tbilisi, Georgia, with David Agmashenebeli, Publisher; and Laptopiada, a collection of her essays, diaries, and short stories, in 2016 in Tbilisi, Georgia, with Saunje Publishing. All three books are written in the author's native Georgian language. The Scent of Homeland, a collection of poems from Georgian emigrants from all over the world, includes three poems by Maka Kartheiser. She also originated the idea of creating such a book to showcase emigrants' literary excellence. This is published in the Georgian language by Saunje Publishing.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
關於作者
瑪卡·卡爾泰瑟（Maka Kartheiser，原名Kverenchkhiladze）於1970年出生在喬治亞共和國的首都第比利斯。她在這個蘇聯國家度過了早期生活，並從第比利斯國立大學獲得喬治亞語言與文學的學士和碩士學位。為了改善自己的生活，她開始在美國和喬治亞之間往返旅行。2004年，她帶著三個兒子來到芝加哥，繼續擔任保姆和照顧老人的工作，以支持她的孩子。她建立了新的聯繫，但仍然努力保護喬治亞的文化、語言和「喬治亞人」的理念。瑪卡尋求一種狀態，使她能夠充分發揮自己的能力和教育背景。在單親媽媽生活了八年後，她再婚了。結合兩種文化和不同家庭及孩子的傳統，這是一段永難忘懷的經歷。瑪卡在伊利諾伊州的約翰斯堡（Johnsburg）小鎮生活，撫養四位年輕男性，並擔任代課老師，與當地社區的年輕人分享她的知識和經驗。
瑪卡·卡爾泰瑟是芝加哥地區喬治亞文化中心的共同創辦人，因其對喬治亞文化、語言和價值觀在移民及其家庭中的不懈關懷，於2017年3月13日獲得「成功移民女性」的榮譽。《分裂的靈魂》（A Soul Divided）是她的第四本書。瑪卡於2012年在喬治亞第比利斯出版了她的第一本回憶錄《前往美國的旅程》（The Journey to America），由Universali出版社出版；2014年出版了詩集《空間中的靈魂》（Soul in Space），由David Agmashenebeli出版社出版；2016年出版了她的散文、日記和短篇故事集《筆記本》（Laptopiada），由Saunje出版社出版。這三本書均以作者的母語喬治亞語撰寫。《故鄉的氣息》（The Scent of Homeland）是一部來自世界各地喬治亞移民的詩集，其中包括瑪卡·卡爾泰瑟的三首詩。她還提出了創作這本書的構想，以展示移民的文學卓越性。該書由Saunje出版社以喬治亞語出版。
