In Other Words

Jhumpa Lahiri
Star Rating
★★★★★
Reviewer's Rating
Aug 13, 2016

It’s pretty daunting to even attempt to recommend something written by the Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies) and try to do it justice. She has presented us a beautifully written memoir in which she soulfully expresses the reasons why she feels compelled to master the Italian language – not only to speak it fluently as one who wants to live in the country, but to write it, one who yearns to express herself in another way, through a foreign language. Foreign as not just of another land, but foreign as unknown and unfamiliar and uncomfortable. She actually wrote In Other Words in Italian and we read the words of her translator Ann Goldstein.  

While I read the print book, I recommend listening to the audio, read by Lahiri and hear her speak the beautiful Italian language she has surely mastered.

 

 

Reviewed by Sarah As
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