![]() ![]() The book was also translated into English by another writer and not Lahiri herself. It is important to mention that In Other Words was originally written in Italian, Lahiri’s third language which she learnt as an adult. It is a kind of a confessional memoir but with a very few details about Lahiri personal life. We witness the author’s anxieties, her self-imposed linguistic odyssey into the depths of Italian language in order to reshape her own personal identity. In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri constitutes an astonishingly beautiful discourse exploring the subjects of identity, the meaning of exile, belonging, cultural displacement, alienation, mixed and ‘third’ culture background, as well as learning a foreign language, and quest for a place called ‘home’ and the language called ‘mother tongue’. ![]() (…)Writing is my only way of absorbing (…) life.” ![]() (…) To get closer to everything that is outside of me. “Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence. ![]()
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