« In Other Words is a revelation, a Pulitzer prize winner gives up writing and speaking in English. 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.
Jhumpa Lahiri, daughter of Bengali immigrants to America. Her father is a university librarian on the East Coast. She grew up with Bengali as her mother tongue, although she has never been able to properly read or write it. “In Other Words” is Ms. Lahiri’s first nonfiction book. » Réservation en ligne
Jhumpa Lahiri, daughter of Bengali immigrants to America. Her father is a university librarian on the East Coast. She grew up with Bengali as her mother tongue, although she has never been able to properly read or write it. “In Other Words” is Ms. Lahiri’s first nonfiction book. » Réservation en ligne