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Title

In other words / Jhumpa Lahiri ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Author

Lahiri, Jhumpa

Publication

• London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury, 2016.
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

Goldstein, Ann, 1949-

Description

xiv, 233 pages; 22 cm

Summary

At heart, this is 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.

Subject

• Lahiri, Jhumpa > Travel > Italy
• Interlanguage (Language learning)
• Italian language > Writing > Biography
• Rome (Italy) > Biography

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies.
• Travel writing.

Note

• "First published in 2015 in Italy as In altre parole by Guanda, Milan"--Title page verso.

Language (note)

• Parallel Italian text and English translation on facing pages; author's note in English.

Contents

Author's note -- La traversata = The crossing -- Il dizionario = The dictionary -- Il colpo di fulmine = Love at first sight -- L'esilio = Exile -- Le conversazioni = The conversations -- La rinuncia = The renunciation -- Leggere con il dizionario = Reading with a dictionary -- Il raccolto delle parole = Gathering words -- Il diario = The diary -- Il racconto = The story -- Lo scambio = The exchange -- Il riparo fragile = The fragile shelter -- L'impossibilità = Impossibility -- Venezia = Venice -- L'imperfetto = The imperfect -- L'adolescente peloso = The hairy adolescent -- Il secondo esilio = The second exile -- Il muro = The wall -- Il triangolo = The triangle -- La metamorfosi = The metamorphosis -- Sondare = Plumbing the depths -- L'impalcatura = The scaffolding -- Penombra = Half-light -- Postfazione = Afterword.

Call Number

JFD 16-2009

ISBN

• 1408866110
• 9781408866115
• 9781408866146 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

930446925

Author

Lahiri, Jhumpa, author.

Title

In other words / Jhumpa Lahiri ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury, 2016.

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Parallel Italian text and English translation on facing pages; author's note in English.

Added Author

Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.

Container of (expression): Lahiri, Jhumpa. In altre parole. English.

Container of (expression): Lahiri, Jhumpa. In altre parole.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-2009