In Other Words

On a post-college visit to Florence Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri fell in love with the Italian language. Twenty years later seeking total immersion she and her family relocated to Rome where she began to read and write solely in her adopted tongue. A startling act of self-reflection In Other Words is Lahiri’s meditation on the process of learning to express herself in another language-and the stunning journey of a writer seeking a new voice. About the Author Jhumpa Lahiri is the author of four works of fiction Interpreter of Maladies The Namesake Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland. She has received numerous awards including the Pulitzer Prize the PEN/Hemingway 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.