num_pages: 233
description: From the Pulitzer Prize winner a surprising powerful and eloquent nonfiction debutIn Other Words is at heart a love storyof 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. And although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterward true mastery had always eluded her. So in 2012 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. In Rome Lahiri began to read and to writeinitially in her journalsolely 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 it is a book about exile linguistic and otherwise written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Nabokov. A startling act of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.
language: English
title: In Other Words
publisher: Knopf