EAN: 9781408866139

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_______________ '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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