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In Other Words

A Memoir

A Memoir

By Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated by Ann Goldstein

By Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated by Ann Goldstein

By Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated by Ann Goldstein

By Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated by Ann Goldstein

By Jhumpa Lahiri
Read by Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated by Ann Goldstein

By Jhumpa Lahiri
Read by Jhumpa Lahiri
Translated by Ann Goldstein

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    About In Other Words

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian—and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. • ”The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read.” —The Washington Post

    On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in her adopted tongue. In Other Words is a startling act of self-reflection.

    About In Other Words

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Namesake delivers a powerful meditation on the process of learning to express herself in Italian—and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. • ”The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read.” —The Washington Post

    On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in her adopted tongue. In Other Words is a startling act of self-reflection.

    About In Other Words

    From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut—an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred)
     
    In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story—of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward, true mastery always eluded her.

    Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for “a trial by fire, a sort of baptism” into a new language and world. There, she begins to read, and to write—initially in her journal—solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical work written in Italian, investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice.

    Presented in a dual-language format, this is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and otherwise, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention. 

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    About Jhumpa Lahiri

    JHUMPA LAHIRI, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies and is also the… More about Jhumpa Lahiri

    About Jhumpa Lahiri

    JHUMPA LAHIRI, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies and is also the… More about Jhumpa Lahiri

    About Jhumpa Lahiri

    JHUMPA LAHIRI, a bilingual writer and translator, is the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Barnard College, Columbia University. She received the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for Interpreter of Maladies and is also the… More about Jhumpa Lahiri

    Product Details

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Language | Travel: Europe

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 07, 2017 | 256 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9781101911464

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Language | Travel: Europe

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 09, 2016 | 256 Pages | ISBN 9781101875568

    Category: Biography & Memoir | Language | Travel: Europe | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 09, 2016 | 413 Minutes | ISBN 9780399566219

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    Praise

    “Gorgeous…. Lahiri gives us the most unusual of self-portraits.” —The New York Times Book Review

    “Exquisite…. Strikingly honest, lyrical, untouched by sentimentality…. The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read.” —The Washington Post
     
    “As much a work of poetry as prose…. Beautiful.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
     
    “Magnificent…. [In Other Words] puts one in the company of a beautiful mind engaged in a sustained and bracing discipline.” —Los Angeles Times

    “Urgent and raw.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
     
    “In Lahiri’s hands, these essays and stories become an invaluable insight into the craft of writing not as storytelling but as speaking the self into existence.” —San Francisco Chronicle
     
    “A quiet coming of age…. Lahiri is a master of language.” —Time

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