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1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) |
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| Contents |
The crossing -- The dictionary -- Love at first sight -- Exile -- The conversations -- The renunciation -- Reading with a dictionary -- Gathering words -- The diary -- The story -- The exchange -- The fragile shelter -- Impossibility -- Venice -- The imperfect -- The hairy adolescent -- The second exile -- The wall -- The triangle -- The metamorphosis -- Plumbing the depths -- The scaffolding -- Half-light -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful nonfiction debut--an "honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer searching for herself in words."--Kirkus Reviews (starred) 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 afterward, true mastery always eluded her. Seeking full immersion, she decides to move to Rome with her family, for "a trial by fire, a sort of baptism" into a new language and world. There, she begins 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. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Presented in a dual-language format, the author traces her enduring love affair with the Italian language that prompted her family's move to Rome, where her efforts to master the language as a writer shaped her feelings of belonging and exile. |
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"A series of reflections on the author's experiences learning a new language and living abroad, in a dual-language edition"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Lahiri, Jhumpa -- Travel.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa.
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Lahiri, Jhumpa. |
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2000-2099 |
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Interlanguage (Language learning) -- Biography.
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Second language acquisition.
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Italian language -- Acquisition.
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Authors, American. |
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Italian language -- Acquisition. |
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Second language acquisition. |
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Nonfiction. |
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Biography & Autobiography. |
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Foreign Language Study. |
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Travel. |
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Autobiographies.
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Travel writing.
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Essays.
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Downloadable e-Books. |
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Electronic books. |
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Autobiographies.
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Biography.
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Essays.
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Travel writing.
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| Added Author |
Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Lahiri, Jhumpa. In other words New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016 97801101875551 (DLC) 2015020998 (OCoLC)915135626 |
| ISBN |
9781101875568 : $48.00 |
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1101875569 : $48.00 |
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