CD Audiobook
In other words [sound recording] / Jhumpa Lahiri ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399566202
- ISBN: 0399566201
- Physical Description: 6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Publisher: New York: Penguin Random House Audio, [2016]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Title from web page. Compact disc. Unabridged. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by the author. |
| Summary, etc.: | Jhumpa Lahiri 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. Lahiri investigates the process of learning to express oneself in another language, and describes the journey of a writer seeking a new voice. |
| Language Note: | In English and Italian. |
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| Subject: | Lahiri, Jhumpa > Travel. Interlanguage (Language learning) > Biography. Italian language. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
Author Notes
In Other Words
Jhumpa Lahiri was born in London, England on July 11, 1967. She received a B.A. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989, and a M.A. in English, a M.A. in Creative Writing, a M.A. in Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies from Boston University. Lahiri taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Her debut work, Interpreter of Maladies, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2000. She has also won the PEN/Hemmingway Award, an O. Henry Award, The New Yorker's best debut of the year award, and an Addison Metcalf award. Her other works include The Namesake, which was made into a movie in 2007, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland, which won 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. (Bowker Author Biography)
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