| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9780670088898 |
| No of pages | 203 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Hamish hamilton |
| Published Date | 09 Feb 2016 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 9780670088898 |
| No of pages | 203 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Hamish hamilton |
| Published Date | 09 Feb 2016 |
Niranjana Sudarshan "Jhumpa" Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age.
Lahiru graduated from South Kingstown High School and later received her B.A. in English literature from Barnard College in 1989.
She then received multiple degrees from Boston University: an M.A. in English, an M.A. in Creative Writing, an M.A.
in Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in Renaissance Studies. She took up a fellowship at Provincetown's Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997-1998).
In 2001, she married Alberto Overvalues-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of TIME Latin America Lahiri currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. She has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center since 2005.
Lahiri taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Much of her short fiction concerns the lives of Indian-Americans, particularly Bengalis.
She received the following awards, among others:
1999 - PEN/Hemingway Award (Best Fiction Debut of the Year) for Interpreter of Maladies;
2000 - The New Yorker's Best Debut of the Year for Interpreter of Maladies;
2000 - Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her debut Interpreter of Maladies
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In Other Words is the translation of an Italian book, written by the author, which is a memoir on how to find your identity by using a language. Jhumpa Lahiri’s original memior book written in Italian is 'In Altre Parole'. 'In Other Words' is its English translation. The author in this book goes on a journey trying to find herself. One thing common in all her books, is her earnest effort to recreate herself by using the issues of identity, alienation and exile.
This is her first attempt at writing something that is non-fiction. Here she provides the reader with rare glimpses of her life, about when she first moved to the USA from Italy, where she had been living with her Spanish husband and two young children.
IN other Words, without doubt is her most compelling work. Her ardent fans would already be aware of the regular characters like Mr. Kapasi, Ashim and Gogol. All this while, one just assessed of her through the characters she created. In this book one gets to explore her identity and preserve their own versions of her.
The writing style remains the same. As always this two hundred page book is easy to read and will leave you with many thoughts to ponder about. She even shares her quest to learn the Italian language, before moving to Rome. And finally when she mastered it, she ended up writing a book in it.
The book more than just about learning a new language, it is about living life one day at a time. In her struggle to learn a language, the author explore a deeper level, where she struggles with her emotional and cultural barriers that also confront her identity.
The book is also a love story about a writer’s passion to learn a new language at any cost. It can be described as an autobiographical work which expresses the journey of a writer trying to know a new language.