En Otras Palabras / In Other Words (Hardcover)

from SaschaD

I wasn't intending to read this tonight. In fact, I'm immersed in a mystery novel by a Swedish writer, which will be reviewed here in the next day or so-or so because I visited my library account and saw that this book was about to expire and that there were 55 people waiting for the other copies...

from lgaikwad

I've read Lahiri's The Lowland, Namesake, and Interpreter of Maladies. In Other Words is her memoir of choosing to inhabit the Italian language, leaving both English and Bengali behind. Often an author describes a particular experience, and the reader says, “Oh! That's me!” Even though it would a...

from ursula

Jhumpa Lahiri has always felt a little detached from her "native" languages, thanks to being raised speaking Bengali with her immigrant parents, and speaking English in the rest of her daily life in the US. She never felt as if she fully had a place in either. And from there, she found a love for...

from Calavari

I love the concept of this memoir. It's not a memoir of Lahiri's life, just her obsession with learning and speaking Italian. I can relate, having lived in Italy a while and falling in love with the language, but my desire to learn it is nowhere near Lahiri's. Finding out that it's actually a mem...

from rmckeown

Jhumba Lahiri is a Bengali-American writer with four widely admired works of fiction to her name. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for her debut collection of stories, Interpreter of Maladies. Her works are sensitive portrayals of the struggles we all go through in our daily lives. In addition, she...