EAN: 9781408866139

IN OTHER WORDS - JHUMPA LAHIRI KARTONIERT (TB)

_______________    'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily
engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley  Spectator    'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' -
New York Times    'A fascinating account of her linguistic exile' - Erica Wagner  Harper's
Bazaar   _______________    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 afterwards  true mastery had always eluded her.  Seeking full immersion
she decided to move to Rome with her family  for 'a trial by fire  a sort of baptism' into a
new language and world. There  she began 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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