In Other Words

Produktbeschreibung

National Best Seller

On a post-college visit to Florence, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later, seeking total immersion, she and her family relocated to Rome, where she began to read and write solely in her adopted tongue. A startling act of self-reflection, In Other Words is Lahiri's meditation on the process of learning to express herself in another language-and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. 

Kritik

Gorgeous.... Lahiri gives us the most unusual of self-portraits. The New York Times Book Review

Exquisite.... Strikingly honest, lyrical, untouched by sentimentality.... The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read. The Washington Post

As much a work of poetry as prose.... Beautiful. Minneapolis Star Tribune

Magnificent.... [In Other Words] puts one in the company of a beautiful mind engaged in a sustained and bracing discipline. Los Angeles Times

Urgent and raw. O, The Oprah Magazine

In Lahiri s hands, these essays and stories become an invaluable insight into the craft of writing not as storytelling but as speaking the self into existence. San Francisco Chronicle

A quiet coming of age.... Lahiri is a master of language. Time 

Autoreninfo

JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four widely acclaimed works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for this book.

ANN GOLDSTEIN is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Primo Levi, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Baricco, and is the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and awards from the Italian Foreign Ministry and from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

From the Hardcover edition.