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In Other Words (Paperback)
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In Other Words (Paperback)
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List price R312
Loot Price R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
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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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