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 ...
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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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Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine condition. Bloomsbury, 2016. First UK edition-first printing (2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Yellow hardback (gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj (very small mark and a couple of nicks on the edges of the back Dj cover, two small nicks and crease on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Nice and clean pages as new with a small ink mark on the outer edges, light shelf wear on the Dj cover. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. 240pp including Author's note, afterword. Price un-clipped. First edition.