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Title: In Other Words

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri

Narrator: Jhumpa Lahiri

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-09-16

Publisher: Audible Studios for Bloomsbury

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs

Publisher's 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).

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.

Members Reviews:

Inspiring

Jhumpa Lahiri is among my favorite writers, but my admiration for her has elevated to another level of respect with her first non-fiction work, In Other Words. This is no ordinary memoir or collection of reflective essays. This is a writer taking her passion for the art and beauty of language to an unparalleled degree of exploration. Lahiriâs lifelong love of Italian compelled her to move with her family to Rome in order to immerse herself in the language. Not only did she desire to speak Italian, she decided to write exclusively in it as well. Her devotion to Italian went so far as abandoning her use of English. She recounts this journey with great honesty and candor, revealing how vulnerable, insecure, and uncertain she felt along the way. Even with all she has given to learning the language, Lahiri shares her trepidation that her Italian will forever be inadequate and ungraspable, but I found her expressiveness in the language to be quite profound. In the memoirâs simplicity, she is insightful and full of great wisdom and self-reflection. I was fascinated with how smooth, graceful, and exquisite her prose was in translation from Italian back into English. She confesses her feelings of estrangement from her native language of Bengali and her dominant language of English. She discusses the relationship between art and imperfection, passion and impulse, and alienation and acceptance. She writes to discover and make sense of herself and the world, and the result is a rapturous memoir and an altogether mesmerizing treatise for anyone who dares to undertake a passion with every ounce of sacrifice and commitment required to make it possible. I loved this book. It is incredibly inspiring, and I admire Lahiri more than ever. She is a talented writer and an amazing human being.

A daring celebration of oneself as another

Amazingly great work by a renowned author. I admire the willingness to immerse oneself in another language, sensing that it will open new worlds, though some fellow Americans will not get the point as they have no idea what happens when you begin to interact in another language.