In Other Words Audiobook (Free)

From the best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize winner, a robust nonfiction debut-an “honest, engaging, and very moving account of a writer looking for herself in phrases.” -Kirkus Evaluations (starred)

QUITE SIMPLY is a surprising rvelation. It is at heart a love story-of an extended and sometimes hard courtship, and a interest that verges on obsession: that of a article writer for another vocabulary. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which initial captivated and capsized her during a visit to about In Other Words Florence after college. Although Lahiri analyzed Italian for many years afterward, accurate mastery often eluded her.

Seeking total immersion, she decides to go to Rome with her family members, for “a trial by fireplace, sort of baptism” right into a new language and world. There, she starts to read, and to write-initially in her journal-solely in Italian. QUITE SIMPLY, an autobiographical work created in Italian, investigates the process of learning to exhibit oneself in another vocabulary, and explains the journey of a writer seeking a fresh voice.

Presented in a dual-language file format, this is a wholly original book on the subject of exile, linguistic and in any other case, written with an intensity and clarity not seen since Vladimir Nabokov: a startling react of self-reflection and a provocative exploration of belonging and reinvention.

Read by the writer, in both English and the original Italian