From your best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a robust non-fiction debut-an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer looking for herself in words.” -Kirkus Evaluations (starred)

In Other Words is a surprising rvelation. It is at heart a love story-of a long and sometimes challenging courtship, and a enthusiasm that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another vocabulary. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a visit to about QUITE SIMPLY Florence after university. Although Lahiri analyzed Italian for many years afterward, true mastery constantly eluded her.

Seeking full immersion, she decides to go to Rome with her family, for “a trial by open fire, a sort of baptism” right into a new language and world. There, she starts to read, and to write-initially in her journal-solely in Italian. In Other Words, an autobiographical function created in Italian, investigates the procedure of understanding how to express oneself in another vocabulary, and represents the journey of a writer seeking a fresh voice.

Presented in a dual-language format, that is a wholly original book about exile, linguistic and in any other case, created with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling work of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.

Read by the writer, in both British and the initial Italian