In Other Words: A Memoir

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$18.00  $16.74
Publisher
Vintage
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Pages
256
Dimensions
5.1 X 7.9 X 0.8 inches | 0.62 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781101911464

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About the Author
JHUMPA LAHIRI is the author of four works of fiction: Interpreter of Maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth, and The Lowland; and a work of nonfiction, In Other Words. She has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize; the PEN/Hemingway Award; the PEN/Malamud Award; the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award; the Premio Gregor von Rezzori; the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature; a 2014 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama; and the Premio Internazionale Viareggio-Versilia, for In altre parole.

ANN GOLDSTEIN is an editor at The New Yorker. She has translated works by, among others, Elena Ferrante, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Primo Levi, Giacomo Leopardi, and Alessandro Baricco, and is the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi in English. She has been the recipient of the PEN Renato Poggioli Translation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and awards from the Italian Foreign Ministry and from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Reviews
"Gorgeous.... Lahiri gives us the most unusual of self-portraits." --The New York Times Book Review

"Exquisite.... Strikingly honest, lyrical, untouched by sentimentality.... The most evocative, unpretentious, astute account of a writing life I have read." --The Washington Post

"As much a work of poetry as prose.... Beautiful." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Magnificent.... [In Other Words] puts one in the company of a beautiful mind engaged in a sustained and bracing discipline." --Los Angeles Times

"Urgent and raw." --O, The Oprah Magazine

"In Lahiri's hands, these essays and stories become an invaluable insight into the craft of writing not as storytelling but as speaking the self into existence." --San Francisco Chronicle

"A quiet coming of age.... Lahiri is a master of language." --Time